Simon Riggs wrote:
> > Somehow, neither of these statements seem likely to be uttered by
> > a sane DBA ...
>
> If I take a backup of a server and bring it up on a new system, the
> blocks in the backup will not have been CRC checked before they go to
> disk.
>
> If I take the same server and now stream log records across to it, why
> *must* that data be CRC checked, when the original data has not been?
>
> I'm proposing choice, with a safe default. That's all.
Are there performance numbers to justify the option? We don't give
people options unless there is real value to it.
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