Re: Online checksums patch - once again

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 5:43 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> Sorry being a bit thick, can you elaborate which case you're thinking about?
> CREATE TABLE sets the attribute according to the value of data_checksums, and
> before enabling checksums (and before changing data_checksums to inprogress)
> the bgworker will update all relhaschecksums from true (if any) to false.  Once
> the state is set to inprogress all new relations will set relhaschecksums to
> true.

Oh, I think I was the one who was confused. I guess relhaschecksums
only really has meaning when we're in the process of enabling
checksums? So if we're in that state, then the Boolean tells us
whether a particular relation is done, and otherwise it doesn't
matter?

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