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Comment by dist-epoch

It's annoying that most file formats don't checksum their own content.

Even formats which should know better, like SQLite, delegate that to the filesystem, most of which are also not checksumed and which delegate that further to the storage.

PostgreSQL, which prides itself by it's quality and reliability, only turned on checksums by default in the last version, 18.

This is one great benefit of using .zip files as file formats, you get this for free.

parent dist-epoch 2 months ago

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