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To: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pg_checksums docs mentioning online functions
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 17:08:26 -0400
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 10:39:53PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > On 4 Jun 2026, at 22:12, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > My big issue is that we explain the limitation of pg_checksums, but
> > don't point readers at the tool that doesn't have that offline
> > restriction. I think we need that explicitly mentioned, and at the top.
>
> How about something like the attached?
Looks good, just one suggestion:
> + When enabling checksums with <application>pg_checksums</application>, if
> + checksums were in the process of being enabled using
> + <xref linkend="checksums-online-enable-disable"/> when the cluster was shut
> + down, <application>pg_checksums</application> will still process all relation
> + files regardless of progress of the online processing.
... pg_checksums will still process all relation files regardless of
the progress of online checksum processing.
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I think this idea is complex enough that we have to clearly state
"online _checksum_ processing."
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