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From Albe Laurenz
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Undetected corruption of table files
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Tom Lane wrote:
>> Would it be an option to have a checksum somewhere in each
>> data block that is verified upon read?
>
> That's been proposed before and rejected before.  See the archives ...

I searched for "checksum" and couldn't find it. Could someone
give me a pointer? I'm not talking about WAL files here.

Thanks,
Laurenz Albe

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