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authorMichael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>2019-07-18 10:05:59 +0900
committerMichael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>2019-07-18 10:05:59 +0900
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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
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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>