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Subject: Re: pg_verify_checksums on ubuntu 16.04
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> On Jul 28, 2021, at 09:47, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>=20
> Rein Petersen <email@reinpetersen.com> writes:
>> I have pg11.9 on ub16.04 and was expecting to find =
pg_verify_checksums
>> command but it's nowhere to be found. any suggestions where i might =
find or
>> install it?
>=20
> Are you quite sure it's PG v11?  Later releases renamed that to
> pg_checksums.
>=20
> Otherwise, maybe Ubuntu put it in some sub-package you didn't install.

In Debian/Ubuntu packaging, pg_checksums is with the other binaries in:

	/usr/lib/postgresql/<major version>/bin/

That's usually not in $PATH, so the OP may have to fully-qualify the =
command or add that to the path.=