> On 27 Oct 2023, at 20:34, Paul Förster <paul(dot)foerster(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> a) why isn't it possible to enable checksumming while a database cluster is up?
It is surprisingly complicated to enable checksums on a live cluster, a patch
was submitted a while back but ultimately never made it into postgres. The
below threads may shine some light on the problem:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CABUevEx8KWhZE_XkZQpzEkZypZmBp3GbM9W90JLp%3D-7OJWBbcg%40mail.gmail.com
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/560A2239-5DE2-4B9C-92BC-878C6822F47C%40yesql.se#10b665b2193445a3d7f24be7917a952c
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Daniel Gustafsson