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

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Checksums by default?
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Msg-id 20170121181912.pdmhxrmxwrsuqdxt@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Checksums by default?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2017-01-21 13:04:18 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2017-01-21 12:46:05 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >> Do you run with all defaults in those environments?
> 
> > Irrelevant - changing requires re-initdb'ing. That's unrealistic.
> 
> If you can't turn checksums *off* without re-initdb, that raises the
> stakes for this enormously.

Not right now, no.


> But why is that so hard?

Don't think it is, it's just that nobody has done it ;)


Greetings,

Andres Freund



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