On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Dan Scales <sca...@vmware.com> wrote: > I'm not sure why you moved the checksum calculation (PageSetVerificationInfo) > to mdwrite() rather than smgrwrite(). If there were every another storage > backend, it would have to duplicate the checksum check, right? Is there a > disadvantage to putting it in smgrwrite()?
The smgr and md layers don't currently know anything about the page format, and I imagine we want to keep it that way. It seems like the right place for this is in some higher layer, like bufmgr. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
