On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Andres Freund <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 11:21:42 PM Kevin Grittner wrote: >> (1) I like the choice of Fletcher-16. It should be very good at >> detecting problems while being a lot less expensive that an official >> CRC calculation. > I wonder if CRC32c wouldn't be a good alternative given more and more cpus > (its in SSE 4.2) support calculating it in silicon.
We're trying to get something that fits in 16bits for this release. I'm guessing CRC32c doesn't? -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
