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author | Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> | 2019-07-18 10:05:59 +0900 |
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committer | Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> | 2019-07-18 10:05:59 +0900 |
commit | 1c1602b8b685a68796f8ba48e41f778c0c42ba43 (patch) | |
tree | ee8b2bfcde0e1797986e484967245c04ed33aaf0 | |
parent | 93907478e15f5762800b6acbe2eff03167843874 (diff) | |
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Simplify description of --data-checksums in documentation of initdb
The documentation mentioned that data checksums cannot be changed after
initialization, which is not true as pg_checksums can do that with its
--enable option introduced in v12. This simply removes the sentence
telling so.
Reported-by: Basil Bourque
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15909-e9d74271f1647472@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
-rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml index 7fc3152c6d3..da5c8f53075 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml @@ -216,11 +216,10 @@ PostgreSQL documentation <para> Use checksums on data pages to help detect corruption by the I/O system that would otherwise be silent. Enabling checksums - may incur a noticeable performance penalty. This option can only - be set during initialization, and cannot be changed later. If - set, checksums are calculated for all objects, in all databases. All - checksum failures will be reported in the <xref - linkend="pg-stat-database-view"/> view. + may incur a noticeable performance penalty. If set, checksums + are calculated for all objects, in all databases. All checksum + failures will be reported in the + <xref linkend="pg-stat-database-view"/> view. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |