Re: Enabling Checksums

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Enabling Checksums
Date: 2013-04-05 20:25:14
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Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)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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Kevin Grittner
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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