Re: Checksums by default?

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, 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: 2017-01-21 18:19:12
Message-ID: 20170121181912.pdmhxrmxwrsuqdxt@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-01-21 13:04:18 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > On 2017-01-21 12:46:05 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >> Do you run with all defaults in those environments?
>
> > Irrelevant - changing requires re-initdb'ing. That's unrealistic.
>
> If you can't turn checksums *off* without re-initdb, that raises the
> stakes for this enormously.

Not right now, no.

> But why is that so hard?

Don't think it is, it's just that nobody has done it ;)

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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