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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