Re: Initdb --data-checksums by default

From: Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: Alex Ignatov <a(dot)ignatov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Initdb --data-checksums by default
Date: 2016-04-20 08:29:13
Message-ID: 1461140953.10574.28.camel@gunduz.org
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Hi,

On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 10:43 +0300, Alex Ignatov wrote:
> Today in Big Data epoch silent data corruption becoming more and more 
> issue to afraid of. With uncorrectable read error rate ~ 10^-15  on 
> multiterabyte disk bit rot is the real issue.
> I think that today checksumming data  must be mandatory  set by default. 
> Only if someone doesn't care about his data he can manually turn this 
> option off.
>
> What do you think about defaulting --data-checksums in initdb?

I think this should be discussed in -hackers, right?

Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR

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