Re: Initdb --data-checksums by default

From: Vick Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Initdb --data-checksums by default
Date: 2016-04-21 17:26:58
Message-ID: CALd+dccQAxxtPy=v7a-fZhejcxtfErctUWvNbzie68xpgNTwtQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Alex Ignatov <a(dot)ignatov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
wrote:

> Ms Windows doesnt have ZFS support. AIX also doesnt. Z/OS also. Any other
> commercial Linux distros don't have ZFS support. Yes you can compile it and
> use on production but...
> But PG runs on the above OS, but have check sum off by default. Thats the
> deal. And it is not related to ZFS existence or any other FS with checksums
> in any way. The question is only in performance hit when you turn it on
> and now I am in the process of testing it...
>

I don't care about those platforms, so changing the default is just making
more work for me. :)

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