Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> Ah, does this mean that each WAL entry gets its own checksum?
Right.
> (I had assumed that PostgreSQLs WAL checksumming was justified by the
> partial write issue. The wild store could easily occur with a heap
> page, too, and AFAIK, tuples, aren't checksummed. Which would be an
> interesting option, I guess.)
We've discussed it but there's never been a pressing reason to do it.
regards, tom lane