Greetings, * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 12:02:40PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > It unfortunately also hurts other workloads. If we moved towards a saner > > > compression algorithm that'd perhaps not be an issue anymore... > > > > I agree that improving compression performance would be good but I don't > > see that as relevant to the question of what our defaults should be. > > > > imv, enabling page checksums is akin to having fsync enabled by default. > > Does it impact performance? Yes, surely quite a lot, but it's also the > > safe and sane choice when it comes to defaults. > > Well, you know fsyncs are required to recover from an OS crash, which is > more likely than detecting data corruption.
Yes, I do know that. That doesn't change my feeling that we should have checksums enabled by default. Thanks, Stephen
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