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| author | Magnus Hagander | 2020-03-26 14:05:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Magnus Hagander | 2020-03-26 14:05:54 +0000 |
| commit | eff5b245df259c73d8342e2f04dba5a832d2ea0a (patch) | |
| tree | 00205c6433e25b590a5550ae179c9437115bc07e /src | |
| parent | 49bf81536e242f079bfbce6e8f95f53f18207dd5 (diff) | |
Document that pg_checksums exists in checksums README
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/storage/page/README | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/README b/src/backend/storage/page/README index 5127d98da37..4e45bd92abc 100644 --- a/src/backend/storage/page/README +++ b/src/backend/storage/page/README @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ have a very low measured incidence according to research on large server farms, http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf, discussed 2010/12/22 on -hackers list. -Current implementation requires this be enabled system-wide at initdb time. +Current implementation requires this be enabled system-wide at initdb time, or +by using the pg_checksums tool on an offline cluster. The checksum is not valid at all times on a data page!! The checksum is valid when the page leaves the shared pool and is checked |