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

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Online verification of checksums
Date
Msg-id 20190304030941.GG1999@paquier.xyz
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Online verification of checksums  (Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>)
Responses Re: Online verification of checksums
Re: Online verification of checksums
Re: Online verification of checksums
List pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 07:58:26AM +0100, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> I agree that having a server function (extension?) to do a full checksum
> verification, possibly bandwidth-controlled, would be a good thing. However
> it would have side effects, such as interfering deeply with the server page
> cache, which may or may not be desirable.

In what is that different from VACUUM or a sequential scan?  It is
possible to use buffer ring replacement strategies in such cases using
the normal clock-sweep algorithm, so that scanning a range of pages
does not really impact Postgres shared buffer cache.
--
Michael

Attachment

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Michael Paquier
Date:
Subject: Re: Online verification of checksums
Next
From: Etsuro Fujita
Date:
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] EvalPlanQual behaves oddly for FDW queries involvingsystem columns