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-rw-r--r--src/backend/storage/page/README3
-rw-r--r--src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c6
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/README b/src/backend/storage/page/README
index 5127d98da37..f873fb0eea1 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/README
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/README
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ have a very low measured incidence according to research on large server farms,
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf, discussed
2010/12/22 on -hackers list.
-Current implementation requires this be enabled system-wide at initdb time.
+Checksums can be enabled at initdb time, but can also be turned on and off
+using pg_enable_data_checksums()/pg_disable_data_checksums() at runtime.
The checksum is not valid at all times on a data page!!
The checksum is valid when the page leaves the shared pool and is checked
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index dfbda5458fd..790e4b860ad 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ PageIsVerified(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
*/
if (!PageIsNew(page))
{
- if (DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ if (DataChecksumsNeedVerify())
{
checksum = pg_checksum_page((char *) page, blkno);
@@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
static char *pageCopy = NULL;
/* If we don't need a checksum, just return the passed-in data */
- if (PageIsNew(page) || !DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ if (PageIsNew(page) || !DataChecksumsNeedWrite())
return (char *) page;
/*
@@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ void
PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
{
/* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
- if (PageIsNew(page) || !DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ if (PageIsNew(page) || !DataChecksumsNeedWrite())
return;
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page((char *) page, blkno);