* Tom Lane: > No, not at all. Block-level checksums would be an order of magnitude > more expensive: they're on bigger chunks of data and they'd be done more > often.
For larger blocks, checksumming can be parallelized at the instruction level, especially if the block size is statically known. And for large blocks, Adler32 isn't that bad compared to CRC32 from a error detection POV, so maybe you could use that. I've seen faults which were uncovered by page-level checksumming, so I'd be willing to pay the performance cost. 8-/ -- Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
