Re: Online verification of checksums - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Online verification of checksums
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Msg-id 20190304030616.GF1999@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: Online verification of checksums  (Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>)
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On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 11:51:48AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> I still think that an external checksum verification tool has some
> merit, given that basebackup does it and the current offline requirement
> is really not useful in practise.

I am not going to argue again about the way checksum verification is
done in a base backup..  :)

Being able to do an online verification of checksums has a lot of
value, do not take me wrong, and an SQL interface to do that does not
prevent having a frontend wrapper using it.
--
Michael

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