On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 06:56 +0000, Evgeny Morozov wrote: > On 12/04/2023 2:35 am, Michael Paquier wrote: > > initdb does not enable checksums by default, requiring a > > -k/--data-checksums, so likely this addition comes from from your > > environment. > > OK, so then what does that mean for the error in the subject? At what > point should that problem have been detected by the data checksums? It means that if the error is caused by a faulty disk changing your data, you'll notice as soon as you touch the page. That would perhaps not have made a lot of difference in your case, except that the error message would have been different and proof that the disk was the problem. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com