Re: Checksums by default?

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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: 2017-01-26 00:14:00
Message-ID: CAM3SWZQt+f8u+8DqZ2_57k70qjEbcdb=vo16wUnTveoq7sS0=A@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> As it is, there are backup solutions which *do* check the checksum when
> backing up PG. This is no longer, thankfully, some hypothetical thing,
> but something which really exists and will hopefully keep users from
> losing data.

Wouldn't that have issues with torn pages?

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Peter Geoghegan

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