Re: Setting pd_lower in GIN metapage

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Amit Langote
> <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>> Initially, I had naively set wal_consistency_check = all before running
>> make installcheck and then had to wait for a long time to confirm that WAL
>> generated by the gin test indeed caused consistency check failure on the
>> standby with the v1 patch.
>
> wal_consistency_check = gin would have saved you a lot of I/O.
>
>> But I can see Sawada-san's point that there should be some way for
>> developers writing code that better had gone through WAL consistency
>> checking facility to do it without much hassle. But then again, it may
>> not be that frequent to need that.

Yeah, it should be optional. I imagined providing such an option of
pg_regress or TAP test for the developers.

Regards,

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