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Re: Initdb --data-checksums by default

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Alex Ignatov wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> Today in Big Data epoch silent data corruption becoming more and more issue
> to afraid of. With uncorrectable read error rate ~ 10^-15  on multiterabyte
> disk bit rot is the real issue.
> I think that today checksumming data  must be mandatory  set by default.
> Only if someone doesn't care about his data he can manually turn this option
> off.

In principle I support the idea of turning data checksums by default,
but can you provide some numbers on how it affects performance on
various workloads?  That's a critical point in the discussion.

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