Re: Data Checksum feature and streaming replication

2014-05-24 8:54 GMT-03:00 Jack Douglas <jack@douglastechnology.co.uk>:
>
> If I’m using the Data Checksum feature (new to 9.3:
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.3#Data_Checksums),
> and in the event of a checksum failure on a replication master, will that
> corrupt data replicate to slaves or will replication halt. Does it depend on
> the setting of ignore_checksum_failure?

I think you got page checksum check confused with WAL CRC check.

There is a README in the source that explains page checksum (and there
is some information about WAL CRC):

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/backend/storage/page/README;hb=HEAD

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