On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 04:44:40PM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote: > This sounds like a good argument for having a whitelist approach, but > is it really a big problem if a user gets warning for files that the > utility is not able to verify checksums for? I think in some sense > this message can be useful to the user as it can allow him to know > which files are not verified by the utility for some form of > corruption. I guess one can say that users might not be interested in > this information in which case such a check could be optional as you > seem to be suggesting in the following paragraph.
The replication protocol supports NOVERIFY_CHECKSUMS to avoid the warnings so they enabled by default, and can be disabled at will. pg_basebackup supports the same interface. -- Michael
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