Re: PostgreSQL 'Corruption & Fragmentation' detection and resolution/fix

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Rui DeSousa <rui(dot)desousa(at)icloud(dot)com>
Cc: pavan95 <pavan(dot)postgresdba(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 'Corruption & Fragmentation' detection and resolution/fix
Date: 2018-06-12 16:51:39
Message-ID: CAH2-Wz=LqRs3k2GWkg+FtahrvdCS39fGfAb5GRskoKA0c3SY6w@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Rui DeSousa <rui(dot)desousa(at)icloud(dot)com> wrote:
> That’s not what I recall; it was clearly used against it in sales pitches. Do you really want to trust a database that requires you to DBCC checkdb periodically and fix corruption data pages or do you want to trust Oracle with data?

Oracle has comparable corruption detection tooling, which is also
quite extensive. It can perform verification online and offline, when
performing backups, and many other such things.

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Peter Geoghegan

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