> On 26 Jun 2020, at 14:12, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 5:43 AM Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> wrote: >> Sorry being a bit thick, can you elaborate which case you're thinking about? >> CREATE TABLE sets the attribute according to the value of data_checksums, and >> before enabling checksums (and before changing data_checksums to inprogress) >> the bgworker will update all relhaschecksums from true (if any) to false. >> Once >> the state is set to inprogress all new relations will set relhaschecksums to >> true. > > Oh, I think I was the one who was confused. I guess relhaschecksums > only really has meaning when we're in the process of enabling > checksums? So if we're in that state, then the Boolean tells us > whether a particular relation is done, and otherwise it doesn't > matter?
That is correct (which is why the name is terrible since it doesn't convey that at all). cheers ./daniel
