Re: How to validate restore of backup?

On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 9:59 AM o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 8:03 AM Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 8:49 AM o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 6:24 AM Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's great on small databases. Not so practical when they're big.
>>>>
>>>> So - - - - what is the recommended procedure for 'large' databases?
>>>
>>> (Might be useful to have a definition for what a large database is as
>>> well.)
>>>
>>
>> "Large" is when it takes too long to run *TWO* text mode pg_dump
>> commands *in addition to* the pg_dump and pg_restore.
>>
>>
> Hmmmmmmmmm - - - - I'd say that's about as neat a non-answer as I've ever
> seen.
>

Eh? If you've got hundreds of hours of down time to pipe a text-mode
pg_dump of a TB-sized database through md5sum. twice, then that database
isn't too big. I don't have that much down time; thus, it's "too big".

Can you try again?
>
> (You forgot the first question - - - maybe you could try that one too - -
> - what is the recommended procedure
> for 'large' databases?)
>

I already did, in my message three hours ago.

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