Re: Initdb --data-checksums by default

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Alex Ignatov <a(dot)ignatov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Initdb --data-checksums by default
Date: 2016-04-20 13:44:26
Message-ID: 571787BA.1010703@aklaver.com
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On 04/20/2016 02:22 AM, Alex Ignatov wrote:
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> Why do you think that common pg-users doesn't care about their data?
> Also why do we have wal_level=minimal fsync=on and other stuff?

Because Postgres will not run without WAL files and the setting is the
least you can have. Doing so you lose the ability to do
archiving/streaming replication, which can be argued is a data safety
issue.

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