Re: [HACKERS] Checksums by default? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Checksums by default?
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Msg-id 15608.1485220543@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Checksums by default?  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Checksums by default?  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Re: [HACKERS] Checksums by default?  (Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>)
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Jim Nasby (Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com) wrote:
>> As others have mentioned, right now practically no one enables this,
>> so we've got zero data on how useful it might actually be.

> Uhm, Peter G just said that Heroku enables this on all their databases
> and have yet to see a false-positive report or an issue with having it
> enabled.

> That, plus the reports and evidence we've seen in the past couple days,
> look like a pretty ringing endorsement for having them.

You must have read a different Peter G than I did.  What I read was

>> I don't recall ever seeing a checksum failure on a Heroku Postgres
>> database,

which did not sound like an endorsement to me.
        regards, tom lane



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