On 11/19/19 5:00 AM, Rushabh Lathia wrote: > > > My colleague Suraj did testing and noticed the performance impact > with the checksums. On further testing, he found that specifically with > sha its more of performance impact. > >
I admit I haven't been following along closely, but why do we need a cryptographic checksum here instead of, say, a CRC? Do we think that somehow the checksum might be forged? Use of cryptographic hashes as general purpose checksums has become far too common IMNSHO. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan https://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
