Re: Chris Hofstaedtler > Please consider enabling data checksums for new clusters on versions > that support them. From what I can tell, the upstream vibe became > something along the lines of "they dont hurt performance wise and > its a good idea generally". > Unfortunately right now, even clusters initialized for PG 12 have > the feature turned off. And I always forget enabling it manually > after it's already too late.
Hi Chris, this has finally happened upstream with PG18 enabling checksums by default. pg_createcluster will use the upstream default, and pg_upgradecluster will enable checksums when using the "dump" method to upgrade pre-18 to 18+. Christoph
