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Re: Enabling Checksums

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Ants Aasma <ants@cybertec.at>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-03-19T23:22:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 03/19/2013 06:52 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
>
>
> While being a lazy researcher today instead of writing code, I 
> discovered that the PNG file format includes a CRC-32 on its data 
> chunks, and to support that there's a CRC32 function inside of zlib: 
> http://www.zlib.net/zlib_tech.html
>
> Is there anywhere that compiles a PostgreSQL --without-zlib that matters?


Some of the smaller platforms might not have it readily available. I 
doubt there is any common server class or general computing platform 
where it's not available.

cheers

andrew