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To: Jeremy Schneider <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: verify checksums online
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:32:19 -0400
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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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