Ron Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Quoting wikipedia:
> "Adler-32 has a weakness for short messages with few hundred bytes,
>  because the checksums for these messages have a poor coverage of
>  the 32 available bits...Jonathan Stone discovered in 2001 that Adler-32
>  has a weakness...An extended explanation can be found in RFC 3309,
>  which mandates the use of CRC32 instead of Adler-32...."

[ looks at the RFC... ]  Yeah, so that pretty much kills it for WAL
entries, which are mostly short.

                        regards, tom lane

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