On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 01:29:18PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > > Uh, not sure how pg_upgrade would detect that as the version number is > > not stored in pg_controldata, e.g.: > > > Data page checksums: enabled/disabled > > That seems pretty shortsighted. The field probably ought to be defined > as containing a checksum algorithm ID number, not a boolean. > > But having said that, I'm not sure why this would be pg_upgrade's > problem. By definition, we do not want pg_upgrade running around > looking at individual data pages. Therefore, whatever we might do > about checksum algorithm changes would have to be something that can be > managed on-the-fly by the newer server.
Well, my idea was that pg_upgrade would allow upgrades from old clusters with the same checksum algorithm version, but not non-matching ones. This would allow the checksum algorithm to be changed and force pg_upgrade to fail. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
