On 24/01/17 02:39, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>>>>> I don't recall ever seeing a checksum failure on a Heroku Postgres
>>>>> database,
>>
>> Not sure how this part of that sentence was missed:
>>
>> -----
>> ... even though they were enabled as soon as the feature became
>> available.
>> -----
>>
>> Which would seem to me to say "the code's been running for a long time
>> on a *lot* of systems without throwing a false positive or surfacing a
>> bug."
>
> I am reading that similarly to what Tom is seeing: enabling it has
> proved Heroku that it did not catch problems in years, meaning that
> the performance cost induced by enabling it has paid nothing in
> practive, except the insurance to catch up problems should they
> happen.
>
+1
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