Re: Enabling Checksums

Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com>

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com>

To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, 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: 2013-04-05T20:25:14Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:

> My opinion is that we don't need to be perfect as long as we
> catch 99% of random errors and we don't have any major blind
> spots.

+1

> Also, the first version doesn't necessarily need to perform well;
> we can leave optimization as future work.

+1, as long as we don't slow down instances not using the feature,
and we don't paint ourselves into a corner.

> We're not really trying to catch memory errors anyway.

+1

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