Re: [HACKERS] Checksums by default?

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 12:46:05PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Petr Jelinek (petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> > As we don't know the performance impact is (there was no benchmark done
> > on reasonably current code base) I really don't understand how you can
> > judge if it's worth it or not.
> 
> Because I see having checksums as, frankly, something we always should
> have had (as most other databases do, for good reason...) and because
> they will hopefully prevent data loss.  I'm willing to give us a fair
> bit to minimize the risk of losing data.

Do these other databases do checksums because they don't do
full_page_writes?  They just detect torn pages rather than repair them
like we do?

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