Add documentation chapter about checksums
authorMagnus Hagander
Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:31:23 +0000 (15:31 +0100)
committerMagnus Hagander
Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:31:23 +0000 (15:31 +0100)
commitcf621d9d84db1e6edaff8ffa26bad93fdce5f830
treea8776faef923e19090a1bcfec3dc7b8ba6a818cd
parent1db0d173a2201119f297ea35edfb41579893dd8c
Add documentation chapter about checksums

Data checksums did not have a longer discussion in the docs,
this adds a short section with an overview.

Extracted from the larger patch for on-line enabling of checksums, which
has many more authors and reviewers.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-By: Magnus Hagander, Michael Banck (and others through the big patch)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5ff49fa4.1c69fb81[email protected]
doc/src/sgml/amcheck.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml
doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml