Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > So probably this is this kind of "should never ever happen" except your > machine goes bye-bye badly. What makes me a bit worried is that pg_dump > did not report an error at all, but made it's backup as if everything > is OK. Could that be changed maybe so that in case of a problem it at > least cries out loudly "broken db found" or so? pg_dump intentionally does *not* look at the contents of indexes (at least not any on user tables). I think this is a good thing because it makes it more likely that you can dump a damaged database. pg_dump is not supposed to be some kind of fsck-like tool. regards, tom lane
