On tis, 2009-12-01 at 19:41 +0000, Greg Stark wrote: > > Also, it would > > require reading back each page as it's written to disk, which is OK > for > > a bunch of single-row writes, but for bulk data loads a significant > problem. > > Not sure what that really means for Postgres. It would just mean > reading back the same page of memory from the filesystem cache that we > just read.
Surely the file system ought to be the place where to solve this. After all, we don't put link-level corruption detection into the libpq protocol either. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
