data checksums

From: bruno vieira da silva <brunogiovs(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: data checksums
Date: 2024-08-06 15:11:55
Message-ID: CAB+Nuk8y88kvoRHsfN2Pjed9o_iM+9FbveU=4P8G0EQbzFP+qw@mail.gmail.com
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Hello.
I've been dealing with some database corruption events, so i've been
wondering to enable data checksums on my deployments.

so my question is why data checksums aren't enabled by default on pg? the
pg doc
mentions a considerable performance penality, how considerable it is?

Thanks
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Bruno Vieira da Silva

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