Re: Why we don't have checksums on clog files

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alex Ignatov <a(dot)ignatov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why we don't have checksums on clog files
Date: 2016-06-13 02:28:33
Message-ID: CA+Tgmobac342705HXieyRM_wGnap_dvDt=8rkQVrhr4C9hJZ2Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I think it will be better if users can have an option to checksum clog
> pages. However, I think that will need a change in page (CLOG-page) format
> which might not be a trivial work to accomplish.

Doesn't the pd_checksum field exist on SLRU pages also? If so, we
could just start using it.

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Robert Haas
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