Simon Riggs wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 22:57 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Jim Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Jan 5, 2007, at 6:30 AM, Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD wrote: > > >> Ok, so when you need CRC's on a replicate (but not on the master) you > > > > > Which sounds to me like a good reason to allow the option in > > > recovery.conf as well... > > > > Actually, I'm not seeing the use-case for a slave having a different > > setting from the master at all? > > > > "My backup server is less reliable than the primary." > > > > "My backup server is more reliable than the primary." > > > > Somehow, neither of these statements seem likely to be uttered by > > a sane DBA ... > > If I take a backup of a server and bring it up on a new system, the > blocks in the backup will not have been CRC checked before they go to > disk. > > If I take the same server and now stream log records across to it, why > *must* that data be CRC checked, when the original data has not been? > > I'm proposing choice, with a safe default. That's all.
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