Re: Does PostgreSQL check database integrity at startup?

[David Steele <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/26/17 10:57 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2017-12-26 16:50 GMT+01:00 Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter 
> >
>     I'm rebuilding the standby server for two days already, with 23% of
>     completion status...
>     If lost the database and backups because of that failure, it would
>     be a giant disaster.
>     Few hours checking integrity would be acceptable... Specially if I
>     can run it on standby only.
>
>
> very simple check
>
> pgdumpall > /dev/null
>
> but this doesn't check indexes.

pgBackRest will validate all page checksums (including indexes, etc.) in 
the cluster during backup.  Full backups check everything, 
incr/differential backups check only the files that have changed.

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-David
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