Re: Enabling Checksums

On 3/4/13 10:00 AM, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 10:36 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> >On 04.03.2013 09:11, Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> > >Are there objectors?
>> >
>> >FWIW, I still think that checksumming belongs in the filesystem, not
>> >PostgreSQL.
> Doing checksums in the filesystem has some downsides.

Additionally, no filesystem I'm aware of checksums the data in the filesystem cache. A PG checksum would.

I'll also mention that this debate has been had in the past. The time to object to the concept of a checksuming feature
wasa long time ago, before a ton of development effort went into this... :(