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Subject: Re: Check for logical / physical corruption
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: flumbador@virgilio.it, pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:37:37 +0100
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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