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Re: Does PostgreSQL check database integrity at startup?

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Stephen Frost wrote:

> * Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter (richter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> > Anyway, instead digging into rsync functionality (or bugs - I doubt,
> > but who knows?), I do prefer to have a script I can run to check if
> > there is obvious failures in standby servers.
> 
> As mentioned, zero-byte files can be perfectly valid.  PostgreSQL does
> have page-level CRCs, if you initialized your database with them (which
> I would strongly recommend).

Page-level checksums would not detect the problem being complained in
this thread, however.

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