Hi,
On 2021-01-06 18:27:48 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> The other argument is that admins can cheaply and quickly turn off
> checksums if they don't want them.
>
> The same cannot be said for turning them *on* again, that's a very
> slow offline operation at this time.
>
> Turning off checksums doesn't take noticeably more time than say
> changing the shared_buffers from the default, which is also almost
> guaranteed to be wrong for most installations.
It still requires running a binary locally on the DB server, no? Which
means it'll not be an option on most cloud providers...
Greetings,
Andres Freund
