On 2/28/07, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Except that's not what you're doing. There's nothing wrong with saying "foo
> does this clever thing I think we should copy because <insert argument>". Nor
> even "foo does this thing, would that help us?" But what you seem to be saying
> is "*Because* foo does this thing we can conclude it's a clever thing and we
> should do it".
Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Sybase, Teradata, MySQL, and Firebird have a
clever feature called page checksumming which I think we should copy
because it's simple and effective at detecting page-level corruption
due to torn pages and/or faulty storage hardware.
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