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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 9.3: mention checksum feature in "29.1. Reliability"
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 01:31:45PM +0900, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
> This page:
> 
>   http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/wal-reliability.html
> 
> says:
> 
> "Data pages are not currently checksummed, though full page images
> recorded in WAL records will be protected. Data pages have a 16-bit
> field available for future use with a data page checksum feature."
> 
> Patch with correction suggestion attached.

Modified patch attached and applied.  Backpatched to 9.3.  Thanks.  I
removed the mention of 9.3 because that looks odd after a few releases.

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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
new file mode 100644
index 059697e..c722532
*** a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
***************
*** 193,201 ****
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
       <para>
!       Data pages are not currently checksummed, though full page images recorded
!       in WAL records will be protected. Data pages have a 16-bit field available
!       for future use with a data page checksum feature.
       </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
--- 193,202 ----
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
       <para>
!       Data pages are not currently checksummed by default, though full page images
!       recorded in WAL records will be protected;  see<link
!       linkend="app-initdb-data-checksums"><application>initdb</></link>
!       for details about enabling data page checksums.
       </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>

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