On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 03:08:09PM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> I still don't understand what issue you see in how basebackup verifies
> checksums. Can you point me to the explanation you've sent after 11 was
> released?
The history is mostly on this thread:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20181020044248.GD2553@paquier.xyz
> So you have a workload/configuration that actually results in data
> corruption yet we fail to detect that? Or we generate false positives?
> Or what do you mean by "100% safe" here?
What's proposed on this thread could generate false positives. Checks
which have deterministic properties and clean failure handling are
reliable when it comes to reports.
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Michael
