Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...

> > Hrm, well, given things just went to beta2, I'm going to bump
> > postgresql-devel to beta2 and include this patch for now, however,
> > I'm going to explicitly requests that people who have problems or
> > successes with beta2 on FreeBSD ask me before possible reporting
> > problems with a platform specific alteration.
>
> You do realize that you'll be forcing initdbs on people if you
> blithely add and remove such a patch?

Yup. I was tempted to include another patch just to bump the catalog
version in the event that it doesn't gracefully detect differing block
sizes... haven't tested if it does that or not.

> I think we forced an initdb for beta2 for other reasons, but I'm
> hoping to avoid any more in the 7.4 branch.

1) People shouldn't be using -devel for production
2) Reloading is still a PITA, which is why I asked for comments.

Other than you feeling uneasy about the possibility of uncovering bugs
because this hasn't been widely done like this before, do you have any
other concerns, or do you think the possibility of finding bugs very
likely?

-sc

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Sean Chittenden