Re: Page Checksums

From: Leonardo Francalanci <m_lists(at)yahoo(dot)it>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Page Checksums
Date: 2011-12-22 08:40:50
Message-ID: 4EF2ED12.5080802@yahoo.it
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> Agreed.
>
> I do agree with Heikki that it really ought to be the OS problem, but
> then we thought that about dtrace and we're still waiting for that or
> similar to be usable on all platforms (+/- 4 years).

My point is that it looks like this is going to take 1-2 years in
postgresql, so it looks like a huge job... but at the same time I
understand we can't "hope other filesystems will catch up"!

I guess this feature will be tunable (off/on)?

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