On 2021-11-05 08:42:58 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 7:38 PM Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> wrote: > > It seems like this specific approach has been mostly shot down already. > > But out of curiosity, are you intending to run CHECKPOINT during > > bootstrap or something? > > Imagine a system with corruption in pg_proc. Right now, that won't > prevent you from successfully executing a checkpoint. With this > approach, it might.
Exactly. It wouldn't matter if checkpoints weren't something needed to potentially bring the system back into a sane state, but ...