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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq