Package: postgresql-9.3-pg-checksums Source: pg-checksums Version: 0.8-1.pgdg18.04+1 Architecture: i386 Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers Installed-Size: 52 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), postgresql-9.3 Homepage: https://github.com/credativ/pg_checksums Priority: optional Section: database Filename: pool/main/p/pg-checksums/postgresql-9.3-pg-checksums_0.8-1.pgdg18.04+1_i386.deb Size: 19452 SHA256: 86d6d037e3ec564d18450ef36ea17ac02e786081ca80321bc767e2f10263a2c3 SHA1: f7fd92e9c2e9327be616a001835c13053c9f16bc MD5sum: 219e018d58987b217e6041f6d0eb26f4 Description: Activate/deactivate/verify PostgreSQL data checksums Data checksums allow the PostgreSQL database server to identify I/O failures when reading data from storage. The checksums stored in the page header of each data page are compared to the computed checksum of the read data. . Data checksums need to be activated at instance creation time, all current versions of PostgreSQL including v11 do not allow activating (or deactivating) checksums afterwards. . pg_checksums can activate or deactivate data checksums as long at the database cluster is shutdown cleanly. Activating checksums requires all database blocks to be read and all page headers to be updated, so can take a long time on a large database. Deactivating checksums only requires the cluster control file to be updated so is quick. . In addition, pg_checksums can verify the checksums in an offline cluster.