Add documentation chapter about checksums

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

Commit: cf621d9d84db1e6edaff8ffa26bad93fdce5f830
Author: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: 2021-01-17T14:31:23Z
Releases: 14.0
Add documentation chapter about checksums

Data checksums did not have a longer discussion in the docs,
this adds a short section with an overview.

Extracted from the larger patch for on-line enabling of checksums, which
has many more authors and reviewers.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-By: Magnus Hagander, Michael Banck (and others through the big patch)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5ff49fa4.1c69fb81.658f3.04ac@mx.google.com

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doc/src/sgml/amcheck.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml modified +1 −0
doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml modified +48 −1

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