On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 07:43:30AM -0400, Brad Nicholson wrote:
> So if all the checksums are being recalculated on the replica, this
> approach should be relatively safe, should it not?
Yep.
> Assuming pg_checksums is doing the right thing (and it looks to me like it
> should be).
The
Michael Paquier wrote on 06/27/2019 11:17:10 PM:
> From: Michael Paquier
> To: Brad Nicholson
> Cc: Grigory Smolkin , pgsql-
> gene...@lists.postgresql.org
> Date: 06/27/2019 11:17 PM
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Re: Enabling checksums on a streaming replica
>
> On Wed, Ju
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 02:08:19PM -0400, Brad Nicholson wrote:
> In testing, it doesn't appear to matter. I've ensured that I've generated
> some full page writes (confirmed via pg_waldump), and those apply
> fine.
Full pages writes are first written from shared buffers to WAL, where
their
Grigory Smolkin wrote on 06/26/2019 12:37:10 PM:
> From: Grigory Smolkin
> To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
> Date: 06/26/2019 12:37 PM
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Enabling checksums on a streaming replica
>
> Hello!
> Very interesting idea, but what about full pa
Hello!
Very interesting idea, but what about full page writes, that comes from
master?
Can they be a problem?
On 6/26/19 6:32 PM, Brad Nicholson wrote:
I'm wondering about the validity of using the pg_checksums utility to
enable checksum's on a streaming replication standby, and then
I'm wondering about the validity of using the pg_checksums utility to
enable checksum's on a streaming replication standby, and then promoting
that standby as a way to enable checksums on existing clusters.
I've tested the process out, and it "works" (by works I mean doesn't blow
up or log any
