[HACKERS] [PATCH] Add pg_disable_checksums() and supporting infrastructure

Extracted from a larger patch, this patch provides the basic infrastructure for turning data
checksums off in a cluster.  This also sets up the necessary pg_control fields to support the
necessary multiple states for handling the transitions.

We do a few things:

- Change "data_checksums" from a simple boolean to "data_checksum_state", an enum type for all of
  the potentially-required states for this feature (as well as enabling).

- Add pg_control support for parsing/displaying the new setting.

- Distinguish between the possible checksum states and be specific about whether we care about
  checksum read failures or write failures at all call sites, turning DataChecksumsEnabled() into two
  functions: DataChecksumsEnabledReads() and DataChecksumsEnabledWrites().

- Create a superuser function pg_disable_checksums() to perform the actual disabling of this in the
  cluster.

I have *not* changed the default in initdb to enable checksums, but this would be trivial.





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David Christensen
End Point Corporation
david@endpoint.com
785-727-1171




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