> On Jul 31, 2025, at 3:21 PM, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.a...@cybertec.at> wrote: > > On Thu, 2025-07-31 at 09:39 -0400, Greg Burd wrote: >> I agree that enabling checksums by default is the sane default. Databases >> should always make a best effort for data integrity, checksums are a >> positive step in that direction. > > Having checksums on does not improve data integrity... > > Yours, > Laurenz Albe
Hello, thanks for your reply. I agree they don't improve integrity, but they do improve the ability to detect loss of integrity (corruption), which is a good thing for databases to do by default. Apologies, my phrasing could have been better. best. -greg
