Hi, On 2021-01-06 18:27:48 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > The other argument is that admins can cheaply and quickly turn off > checksums if they don't want them. > > The same cannot be said for turning them *on* again, that's a very > slow offline operation at this time. > > Turning off checksums doesn't take noticeably more time than say > changing the shared_buffers from the default, which is also almost > guaranteed to be wrong for most installations.
It still requires running a binary locally on the DB server, no? Which means it'll not be an option on most cloud providers... Greetings, Andres Freund
