The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/checksums.html
Description:
Hi there,
I think that the first sentence of the second paragraph in this page is a
little bit misleading. The first paragraph states that checksums are not
enabled by default. The first sentence in the second paragraph sounds like
it IS enabled by default when using initdb, but you have to pass -k
explicitly.
As far as I understood, it's a good idea to enable this and that is what the
beginning of the second paragraph means.
Maybe a sentence like "Checksums should normally be enabled when the cluster
is initialized using initdb" instead of "are" - or "It's recommended to
enable Checksums when initializing a cluster using initdb".
regards
Felix
