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From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@tigerdata.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 14:45:59 +0300
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Subject: Re: The ability of postgres to determine loss of files of the main
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Hi Jakub,

> IMHO all files should be opened at least on startup to check integrity,

That might be a lot of files to open. Even if you can open a file it
doesn't mean it's not empty or is not corrupted.

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev