Re: Enable data checksums by default

From: Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Enable data checksums by default
Date: 2019-03-29 19:25:41
Message-ID: 3586bb9345a59bfc8d13a50a7c729be1ee6759fd.camel@oopsware.de
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Am Freitag, den 29.03.2019, 23:10 +0900 schrieb Michael Paquier:
>
> I can't really believe that many people set up shared_buffers at
> 128kB
> which would cause such a large number of page evictions, but I can
> believe that many users have shared_buffers set to its default value
> and that we are going to get complains about "performance drop after
> upgrade to v12" if we switch data checksums to on by default.

Yeah, i think Christoph's benchmark is based on this thinking. I assume
this very unrealistic scenery should emulate the worst case (many
buffer_reads, high checksum calculation load).

Bernd

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