Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...

Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:
>> You do realize that you'll be forcing initdbs on people if you
>> blithely add and remove such a patch?

> Yup.  I was tempted to include another patch just to bump the catalog
> version in the event that it doesn't gracefully detect differing block
> sizes... haven't tested if it does that or not.

It does, and you will definitely incur my wrath if you start putting in
unnecessary platform-specific catversion hacks.


>> I think we forced an initdb for beta2 for other reasons, but I'm
>> hoping to avoid any more in the 7.4 branch.

> 1) People shouldn't be using -devel for production

No, but they might reasonably hope to segue a beta installation into
production without yet-another reload ...
        regards, tom lane