| From: | Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Albe Laurenz <all(at)adv(dot)magwien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Undetected corruption of table files |
| Date: | 2007-08-31 21:17:50 |
| Message-ID: | 20070831211750.GJ38801@decibel.org |
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:11:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> > Even if we don't care about folks running on suspect hardware, having a
> > CRC would make it far more reasonable to recommend full_page_writes=3Doff.
>
> This argument seems ridiculous. Finding out that you have corrupt data
> is no substitute for not having corrupt data.
Of course. But how will you discover you have corrupt data if there's no
mechanism to detect it?
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Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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