9.3: mention checksum feature in "29.1. Reliability"

On 27 August 2013 05:31, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com> 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.

Thanks Ian, well spotted.

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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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