Re: Enabling Checksums - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Enabling Checksums
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Msg-id 19157.1362594283@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Enabling Checksums  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Enabling Checksums  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2013-03-06 11:21:21 -0500, Garick Hamlin wrote:
>> If picking a CRC why not a short optimal one rather than truncate CRC32C?

> CRC32C is available in hardware since SSE4.2.

I think that should be at most a fourth-order consideration, since we
are not interested solely in Intel hardware, nor do we have any portable
way of getting at such a feature even if the hardware has it.
        regards, tom lane



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