Re: Enable data checksums by default
Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: Greg Burd <greg@burd.me>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>,
Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>,
Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>,
Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-07-31T20:42:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote: > Having checksums on does not improve data integrity... > Maybe not directly, but in the same way that a smoke detector does not directly prevent fire damage. Checksums do allow you to detect problems and fix things (esp. bad hardware) before they get worse. Cheers, Greg -- Crunchy Data - https://www.crunchydata.com Enterprise Postgres Software Products & Tech Support