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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: Jeremy Schneider <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: verify checksums online
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:32:19 -0400
Message-ID: <CANzqJaDJtXkDEsq3QFY6ywL2KwObAW-twWtZ0qJCsioH-75wWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM Jeremy Schneider <[email protected]>
wrote:

> i should know the answer to this... but asking anyway
>
> i think there had been some mailing list discussions years ago? the
> pg_checksum utility in core still can't do an online check right?
>

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/app-pgchecksums.html

"The server must be shut down cleanly before running pg_checksums."


> looking around, i think that michael's pg_checksums_ext still seems to
> be available in debian repos, and it advertises online checks, which
> makes me think that the core pg_checksum might still not have merged
> any code for online checking yet
>
> but i wanted to confirm with someone - my easiest options for online
> verifying checksums would be to trigger pg_basebackup then check
> pg_stat_database, or to install michael's utility?
>

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