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
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
- 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
+ view.