Thursday, January 15, 2026 17:35 +07, John Naylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>External programs are probably doing some one-off task, so I don't see >a reason to work harder. Well, yeah, I agree. I was mostly thinking about some backup tools that could use pg_checksum_page. With a quick search I've found only [1], though. >> Also, not moving all those checksum files to src/port saves us from >> thinking about problems with meson and current external programs, >> but, I think, that after hardware checks are refactored, we could >> revisit the question of moving checksum[_impl].h/.c to src/port. > >Refactoring the hardware checks is not going to make those two >problems go away, and I don't understand why you want to move anything >to begin with. Yeah, moving checksum files to src/port introduces those two problems, and I don't think there is any serious upside in doing this. There was some discussion about it during v5 and v6, but as of v10, this is not needed. [1] - https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_rman -- Regards, Oleg
