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From: Michael Banck <[email protected]>
To: Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Bernd Helmle <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Changing the state of data checksums in a running cluster
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 08:52:10 +0100
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Hi,

On Fri, Feb 06, 2026 at 12:15:27AM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> It's a bit unfortunate we only detect invalid checksums if the failures
> appear in the server log. I wonder if we could run pg_checksums after
> the cluster gets shut down in 'fast' mode (we can't do that with
> immediate shutdowns, of course).

Well, maybe we could do that with immediate shutdowns if we add a
--force parameter to pg_checksums that is clearly labelled/docmented as
being dangerous for running instances (but the instance wouldn't run in
this case).  Or something undocumented like
--debug-force-unclean-controlfile.


Michael






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