På onsdag 20. april 2016 kl. 10:33:14, skrev Alex Ignatov < a.igna...@postgrespro.ru <mailto:a.igna...@postgrespro.ru>>:
On 20.04.2016 11:29, Devrim Gündüz wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 10:43 +0300, Alex Ignatov wrote: >> 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. >> >> What do you think about defaulting --data-checksums in initdb? > I think this should be discussed in -hackers, right? > > Regards, May be you right but i want to know what people think about it before i'll write to hackers. -1 on changing the default. 10^15 ~= 1000 TB, which isn't very common yet. Those having it probably are aware of the risk and have enabled checksums already. -- Andreas Joseph Krogh CTO / Partner - Visena AS Mobile: +47 909 56 963 andr...@visena.com <mailto:andr...@visena.com> www.visena.com <https://www.visena.com> <https://www.visena.com>