Re: How safe is pg_basebackup + continuous archiving?

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Kaixi Luo <kaixiluo(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How safe is pg_basebackup + continuous archiving?
Date: 2016-07-02 00:10:01
Message-ID: d64ef5e5-6de1-3e91-7e97-9fbd86194556@BlueTreble.com
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On 6/30/16 8:30 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> > How can we check for backup corruption in this case? Thanks you very much.
> There has been some discussion about a specific tool for checking the
> checksums throughout the entire system. I don't know of anyone activly
> working on that, unfortunately.

If someone did want that though, it could probably be done as an
extension. I believe you just have to pull all of each relation into
shared buffers for the checksums to be verified.
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