RE: CRCs

> > But physical log recovery will rewrite every page that was changed
> > after last checkpoint, thus this is not an issue anymore.
> 
> No.  That assumes that when the drive _says_ the block is written, 
> it is really on the disk.  That is not true for IDE drives.  It is 
> true for SCSI drives only when the SCSI spec is implemented correctly,
> but implementing the spec correctly interferes with favorable 
> benchmark results.

You know - this is *core* assumption. If drive lies about this then
*nothing* will help you. Do you remember core rule of WAL?
"Changes must be logged *before* changed data pages written".
If this rule will be broken then data files will be inconsistent
after crash recovery and you will not notice this, w/wo CRC in
data blocks.

I agreed that CRCs could help to detect other errors but probably
it's too late for 7.1

Vadim