Re: Offline enabling/disabling of data checksums

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Michael Banck <michael(dot)banck(at)credativ(dot)de>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Offline enabling/disabling of data checksums
Date: 2019-01-01 11:44:19
Message-ID: 20190101114419.GB1994@paquier.xyz
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On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 11:42:49AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 01.01.2019, 11:38 +0900 schrieb Michael Paquier:
>> About 3), aka --verify implied if no action is specified:
>> - In favor: Fabien C, Magnus
>> - Against: Michael P
>
> I think I'm in favor as well.

Okay, it looks to be the direction to take then.

> I wonder whether we (or packagers) could then just ship a
> pg_verify_checksums -> pg_checksums symlink for compatibility if we/they
> want, as the behaviour would stay the same?

In the v10 dev cycle this part has been discarded for the switch from
pg_xlogdump to pg_waldump. I don't think that's worth bothering this
time either in the build.
--
Michael

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