Re: Diagnostic functions - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Diagnostic functions
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Msg-id 200705071716.28795.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Diagnostic functions  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Diagnostic functions  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
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Am Montag, 7. Mai 2007 11:49 schrieb Heikki Linnakangas:
> It's handy to be able to inspect pages from within a live database.

How reliable is it to inspect pages from within a database if you presumably
suspect that database to be broken?

> We already played the name game on hackers. My original suggestion was
> "pgforensics". "pgdiagfuncs" and "pginspect" were also suggested, among
> others. I'm still open to suggestions, though. Have any?

Something involving "page" would at least explain what you can diagnose.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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