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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: flumbador@virgilio.it
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Check for logical / physical corruption
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:37:37 +0100
Message-ID: <1516898257.2599.17.camel@cybertec.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <153589807.1971336.1516883440396@mail.virgilio.it>
References: <153589807.1971336.1516883440396@mail.virgilio.it>

flumbador@virgilio.it wrote:
> I need to check that my database has not physical / logical corruption.
> I think that "vacuumdb -all -freeze -analyze" will do this for me.
> Am I right? 
> Are there other command / utility that I should do to check corruptions?

The only good test is to run a pg_dumpall and restore the dump into a new
PostgreSQL cluster.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe




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