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Re: data_checksums enabled by default (was: Move --data-checksums to common options in initdb --help)

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-01-06T19:53:39Z
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 11:44 AM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> Having fsync off won't actually cause corruption unless you have an OS
> crash or don't sync the disks when you reboot the system though- so it's
> a hedge against certain failure conditions, as is checksums.

I find this argument baffling. Do you really believe this?

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

Commits

  1. Promote --data-checksums to the common set of options in initdb --help