Re: Enabling Checksums

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Enabling Checksums
Date: 2012-11-09 18:58:57
Message-ID: 1352487537.6292.80.camel@jdavis-laptop
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On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 23:33 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> There's no such thing as a system-wide VACUUM. The most you can get is
> a database-wide VACUUM, which means you'd have to store the state
> per-database somewhere (presumably the pg_database catalog), and perhaps
> pg_control could have it as a system-wide value that's computed as the
> minimum of all database states (so it stays "enabling" until all
> databases have upgraded to "on").

That's a good point. Maybe this should be done as an offline operation
using a command-line utility?

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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