Re: Initdb --data-checksums by default - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Devrim Gündüz
Subject Re: Initdb --data-checksums by default
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Msg-id 1461140953.10574.28.camel@gunduz.org
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In response to Initdb --data-checksums by default  (Alex Ignatov <a.ignatov@postgrespro.ru>)
Responses Re: Initdb --data-checksums by default
List pgsql-general
Hi,

On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 10:43 +0300, Alex Ignatov wrote:
> Today in Big Data epoch silent data corruption becoming more and more 
> issue to afraid of. With uncorrectable read error rate ~ 10^-15  on 
> multiterabyte disk bit rot is the real issue.
> I think that today checksumming data  must be mandatory  set by default. 
> Only if someone doesn't care about his data he can manually turn this 
> option off.
>
> What do you think about defaulting --data-checksums in initdb?

I think this should be discussed in -hackers, right?

Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
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