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Re: Enabling Checksums

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

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From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Ants Aasma <ants@cybertec.at>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-04-05T16:23:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 03:34 +0200, Ants Aasma wrote:
> The main thing to look out for is that we don't
> have any blind spots for conceivable systemic errors. If we decide to
> go with the SIMD variant then I intend to figure out what the blind
> spots are and show that they don't matter.

Are you still looking into SIMD? Right now, it's using the existing CRC
implementation. Obviously we can't change it after it ships. Or is it
too late to change it already?

Regards,
	Jeff Davis