| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: State of Beta 2 |
| Date: | 2003-09-11 20:05:07 |
| Message-ID: | 20030911170339.U57860@ganymede.hub.org |
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> I haven't had a chance to sit down and do any exhaustive testing yet and
> don't think I will for a while. That said, once 7.4 goes gold, I'm
> going to provide databases/postgresql-devel with a tunable that will
> allow people to choose what block size they would like (4k, 8K, 16K,
> 32K, or 64K) when they build the port.
If you do this, you *have* to put in a very very big warning that
databases created with non-PostgreSQL-standard block sizes may not be
transferrable to a standard-PostgreSQL install ... that is Tom's major
problem, is cross-platform/system dump/restores may no work is the
database schema was designed with a 16k block size in mind ...
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