Re: Enabling Checksums

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Enabling Checksums
Date: 2013-03-19 23:22:24
Message-ID: 5148F330.6080407@dunslane.net
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On 03/19/2013 06:52 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
>
>
> While being a lazy researcher today instead of writing code, I
> discovered that the PNG file format includes a CRC-32 on its data
> chunks, and to support that there's a CRC32 function inside of zlib:
> http://www.zlib.net/zlib_tech.html
>
> Is there anywhere that compiles a PostgreSQL --without-zlib that matters?

Some of the smaller platforms might not have it readily available. I
doubt there is any common server class or general computing platform
where it's not available.

cheers

andrew

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