Re: Database consistency checker - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Database consistency checker
Date
Msg-id 14459.1080602026@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Database consistency checker  ("Richard Harris" <Richard_Harris@adp.com>)
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"Richard Harris" <Richard_Harris@adp.com> writes:
> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Does PosgreSQL has a capability to check t=
> he internal consistency of tables and and indexes, i.e., a tool like the DB=
> CC capability in MS SQL Server? If so, where is it documented?</FONT></P>

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We do not have any automatic database verifiers.  In general there are
no known repeatable failure modes in Postgres, and thus not a lot of
scope for tools that look for such errors ... we prefer to spend our
development efforts on making the system bulletproof in the first place ;-)

            regards, tom lane

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