Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> Would you say that most user's databases run fast enough with checksums
> enabled? Or more than most, maybe 70%? 80%? In today's environment,
> I'd probably say that it's more like 90+%.
It would be nice if there were some actual evidence about this, rather
than numbers picked out of the air.
> I agree that it's unfortunate that we haven't put more effort into
> fixing that- I'm all for it, but it's disappointing to see that people
> are not in favor of changing the default as I believe it would both help
> our users and encourage more development of the feature.
I think the really key point is that a whole lot of infrastructure work
needs to be done still, and changing the default before that work has been
done is not going to be user-friendly. The most pressing issue being the
difficulty of changing the setting after the fact. It would be a *whole*
lot easier to sell default-on if there were a way to turn it off, and yet
you want us to buy into default-on before that way exists. Come back
after that feature is in, and we can talk.
regards, tom lane