Re: Online enabling of checksums

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Banck <michael(dot)banck(at)credativ(dot)de>
Subject: Re: Online enabling of checksums
Date: 2018-03-01 15:18:48
Message-ID: CABUevEwAwhXdvX9Zjrosk977ijD7hGO0KGTKmSaSAgkur1j=cA@mail.gmail.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> On 2018-03-01 12:56:35 +0500, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> > I've tried to rebase this patch to 10 and, despite minor rebase issues
> (oids, bgw_type, changes to specscanner), patch works fine.
> > Do we provide backporting for such features?
>
> Definitely not. With very rare exceptions (OS compatibility and the
> like), features aren't backported.
>

Yeah. And definitely not something that both changes the format of
pg_control (by adding new possible values to the checksum field) *and* adds
a new WAL record type...

--
Magnus Hagander
Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/>
Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Laurenz Albe 2018-03-01 15:22:38 SHOW ALL does not honor pg_read_all_settings membership
Previous Message Tom Lane 2018-03-01 15:09:34 Re: [patch] BUG #15005: ANALYZE can make pg_class.reltuples inaccurate.