Re: [GENERAL] Undetected corruption of table files - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Decibel!
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Undetected corruption of table files
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Msg-id 20070831211750.GJ38801@decibel.org
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Undetected corruption of table files  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:11:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
> > Even if we don't care about folks running on suspect hardware, having a
> > CRC would make it far more reasonable to recommend full_page_writes=3Doff.
>
> This argument seems ridiculous.  Finding out that you have corrupt data
> is no substitute for not having corrupt data.

Of course. But how will you discover you have corrupt data if there's no
mechanism to detect it?
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Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby                        decibel@decibel.org
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