Re: Enable data checksums by default

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Enable data checksums by default
Date: 2024-10-07 09:37:04
Message-ID: 946E62B6-7F46-4505-9F03-21C5779A746D@yesql.se
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> On 3 Oct 2024, at 23:13, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 11:15:02AM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I have committed 0001 (the new option) and 0004 (the docs tweak). I think
>> there is consensus for the rest, too, but I'll leave it for a few more days
>> to think about. I guess the test failure has to be addressed.
>
> Here is a rebased patch with the test fix (for cfbot). I have made no
> other changes.

+ Data checksums are enabled by default. They can be
+ disabled by use of <option>--no-data-checksums</option>.

Nitpick, but I think this should be an xref like how we link to --no-locale in
the -E docs: <xref linkend="app-initdb-no-data-checksums"/> instead.

LGTM otherwise.

--
Daniel Gustafsson

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