Re: Undetected corruption of table files

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Albe Laurenz" <all(at)adv(dot)magwien(dot)gv(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Undetected corruption of table files
Date: 2007-08-24 14:59:36
Message-ID: 29791.1187967576@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Albe Laurenz" <all(at)adv(dot)magwien(dot)gv(dot)at> writes:
> Would it be an option to have a checksum somewhere in each
> data block that is verified upon read?

That's been proposed before and rejected before. See the archives ...

regards, tom lane

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