Re: Checksums by default?

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Checksums by default?
Date: 2017-01-21 15:41:55
Message-ID: CAHGQGwGcG7mUx=zWwT31kTsp8gUhvQ2d8SAReLgJpEs-T_9AZw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Petr Jelinek
<petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 21/01/17 11:39, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Is it time to enable checksums by default, and give initdb a switch to
>> turn it off instead?
>
> I'd like to see benchmark first, both in terms of CPU and in terms of
> produced WAL (=network traffic) given that it turns on logging of hint bits.

+1

If the performance overhead by the checksums is really negligible,
we may be able to get rid of wal_log_hints parameter, as well.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao

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