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From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Why we don't have checksums on clog files
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In response to Re: Why we don't have checksums on clog files  (Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it will be better if users can have an option to checksum clog
> pages.  However, I think that will need a change in page (CLOG-page) format
> which might not be a trivial work to accomplish.

Doesn't the pd_checksum field exist on SLRU pages also?  If so, we
could just start using it.

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Robert Haas
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