* Andres Freund (andres@anarazel.de) wrote:
> On 2017-01-21 12:09:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Also, if we do decide to do that, there's the question of timing.
> > As I mentioned, one of the chief risks I see is the possibility of
> > false-positive checksum failures due to bugs; I think that code has seen
> > sufficiently little field use that we should have little confidence that
> > no such bugs remain. So if we're gonna do it, I'd prefer to do it at the
> > very start of a devel cycle, so as to have the greatest opportunity to
> > find bugs before we ship the new default.
>
> What wouldn't hurt is enabling it by default in pg_regress on master for
> a while. That seems like a good thing to do independent of flipping the
> default.
Oh. I like that idea, a lot.
+1.
Thanks!
Stephen