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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
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Subject: Re: pgsql: Validate page level checksums in base backups
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Michael Banck wrote:

> However, the pg_basebackup testsuite takes up 800+ MB to run,

Uh, you're right.  This seems a bit over the top.  Can we reduce that
without losing coverage?  We've gone great lengths to avoid large
amounts of data in tests elsewhere.

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