On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 12:02:40PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > > It unfortunately also hurts other workloads. If we moved towards a saner > > compression algorithm that'd perhaps not be an issue anymore... > > I agree that improving compression performance would be good but I don't > see that as relevant to the question of what our defaults should be. > > imv, enabling page checksums is akin to having fsync enabled by default. > Does it impact performance? Yes, surely quite a lot, but it's also the > safe and sane choice when it comes to defaults.
Well, you know fsyncs are required to recover from an OS crash, which is more likely than detecting data corruption. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee