Re: Verify data after backup and restore

Can I get the row count directly from pg_stat_user_indexes?

On Thu, 14 Dec 2023, 10:25 Ron Johnson, <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
> If you think that "grep -E 'ERROR:|WARN:' pg_dump_$DB.log" is
> insufficient, then write a script to get MIN(), MAX() and COUNT(*) of each
> table before you do a pg_dump. After pg_restore, run the same script, but
> pointed at the new database.
>
> SELE the "first" (presumably ordered by primary key) and "last" records
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 1:49 PM Rajesh Kumar <rajeshkumar(dot)dba09(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> Backup and restore I mean during downtime only. I wanted to double check
>> what all things we need to validate after a successful restore. Like table
>> count , all 14 objects count, first and last row of important tables, row
>> count of each table like dat?
>>
>> On Wed, 13 Dec, 2023, 8:48 PM Ron Johnson, <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 10:16 AM Pepe TD Vo <pepevo(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> checking the backup files for size, date, and format; utilizing
>>>> checksums or hashes to compare the backup files with the original data files
>>>>
>>>
>>> How does that work on constantly changing tables?
>>>
>>>