| From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Zdenek Kotala" <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)sun(dot)com>, "Pg Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Block-level CRC checks |
| Date: | 2008-10-30 17:13:17 |
| Message-ID: | 36e682920810301013w6ccce99ekcfc7c8f1da852107@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Gregory Stark escribió:
>
>> What I'm wondering though -- are we going to make CRCs mandatory? Or set aside
>> the 4 bytes even if you're not using them? Because if the size of the page
>> header varies depending on whether you're using CRCs that sounds like it would
>> be quite a pain.
>
> Not mandatory, but the space needs to be set aside. (Otherwise you
> couldn't turn it on after running with it turned off, which would rule
> out using the database after initdb).
Agreed.
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Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA
myYearbook.com
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