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ikiris 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a pa...

If you somehow have 3+ bit errors coming out of ram on an ECC board, you have much bigger problems than trying to verify your postgres data via checksum.

magicalhippo 5 months ago [–]

AFAIK RowHammer attacks can cause multiple bits to flip in a row[1], no?

But sure, it's not for the vast majority of folks.

[1]: https://www.vusec.net/projects/eccploit/

ikiris 5 months ago | [–]

Rowhammer would qualify as a bigger problem, yes.

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