Re: pgsql: Online enabling and disabling of data checksums

From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)tigerdata(dot)com>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <dgustafsson(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Online enabling and disabling of data checksums
Date: 2026-04-06 14:39:04
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Hi Daniel,

> Online enabling and disabling of data checksums
>
> [...]

I noticed a little mistake:

```
/*
* Await state transition to "on" in all backends. When done we know that
* data data checksums are both written and verified in all backends.
*/
```

The word "data" is repeated twice.

Also there are inconsistencies in the way
XLogCtlData->data_checksum_version,
ControlFileData->data_checksum_version and certain variables are
assigned. Sometimes a hardcoded 0 is used and sometimes
PG_DATA_CHECKSUM_OFF. I suggest using values of the enum
ChecksumStateType for readability / consistency.

Here are corresponding patches.

--
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

Attachment Content-Type Size
v1-0002-Use-PG_DATA_CHECKSUM_OFF-instead-of-hardcoded-zer.patch text/x-patch 6.6 KB
v1-0001-Fix-doubled-word-in-a-comment-introduced-by-commi.patch text/x-patch 1003 bytes

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