On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> Are you saying you would accept the patch if we had this? > I think I would still be uncomfortable with the hacks in the page header. There are no "hacks". There are some carefully designed changes with input from multiple people, including yourself, and it copes as gracefully as it can with backwards compatibility requirements. > Less so than in the current form - you wouldn't need a flag to indicate > whether the page has a valid checksum or not, which would clean it up quite > a bit - but still. I agree this would remove the reliance on a bit in the page header and so make it even more robust. I'll add the 2 phase enabling feature, making it happen at database level. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
