Re: Checksums by default?

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Checksums by default?
Date: 2017-01-25 05:02:25
Message-ID: 142a230c-4fb5-317b-438a-ee5390873059@BlueTreble.com
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On 1/24/17 10:30 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> Tom is correct here. They are not a net win for the average user. We
> tend to forget that although we collectively have a lot of enterprise
> installs where this does matter, we collectively do not equal near the
> level of average user installs.
>
> From an advocacy perspective, the average user install is the one that
> we tend most because that tending (in theory) will grow something that
> is more fruitful e.g; the enterprise install over time because we
> constantly and consistently provided a reasonable and expected
> experience to the average user.

I'm not completely grokking your second paragraph, but I would think
that an average user would love got get a heads-up that their hardware
is failing.
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