Re: Page Checksums

Excerpts from Christopher Browne's message of mar dic 20 14:12:56 -0300 2011:

> It's not evident which problems will be "real" ones.  And in such
> cases, is the answer to turf the database and recover from backup,
> because of a single busted page?  For a big database, I'm not sure
> that's less scary than the possibility of one page having a
> corruption.

I don't think the problem is having one page of corruption.  The problem
is *not knowing* that random pages are corrupted, and living in the fear
that they might be.

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