Re: Block-level CRC checks

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Block-level CRC checks
Date: 2009-12-02 18:40:27
Message-ID: 1259779227.19446.9.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On tis, 2009-12-01 at 19:41 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> > Also, it would
> > require reading back each page as it's written to disk, which is OK
> for
> > a bunch of single-row writes, but for bulk data loads a significant
> problem.
>
> Not sure what that really means for Postgres. It would just mean
> reading back the same page of memory from the filesystem cache that we
> just read.

Surely the file system ought to be the place where to solve this. After
all, we don't put link-level corruption detection into the libpq
protocol either.

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