Re: Initdb --data-checksums by default - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Initdb --data-checksums by default
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Msg-id 571787BA.1010703@aklaver.com
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In response to Re: Initdb --data-checksums by default  (Alex Ignatov <a.ignatov@postgrespro.ru>)
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On 04/20/2016 02:22 AM, Alex Ignatov wrote:
>


> Why do you think that common pg-users doesn't care about their data?
> Also why do we have wal_level=minimal fsync=on and other stuff?

Because Postgres will not run without WAL files and the setting is the
least you can have. Doing so you lose the ability to do
archiving/streaming replication, which can be argued is a data safety
issue.

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> Alex Ignatov
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