On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Options
>>
>> (1) Recovery ignores checksums until db in consistent state
>>
>> (2) Recovery ignores checksums until all databases are enabled, when
>> we set flag in pg_control
>>
>> (3) Recovery checks blocks marked as having a checksum, no matter the
>> overall state
>
> How about combining #1 and #3?  If the database isn't consistent yet
> (and thus we can't look at pg_database) then we rely on the blocks
> themselves to tell us whether they have checksums.  Once we reach
> consistency we can do better.

We can change state then, but to what? We don't have a relcache.

Maybe that puts us back at Square #1. Will think

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