Package: postgresql-10-pg-checksums Source: pg-checksums Version: 1.1-6.pgdg20.04+1 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers Installed-Size: 75 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), postgresql-10 Recommends: pg-checksums-doc Homepage: https://github.com/credativ/pg_checksums Priority: optional Section: database Filename: pool/main/p/pg-checksums/postgresql-10-pg-checksums_1.1-6.pgdg20.04+1_amd64.deb Size: 30856 SHA256: 57ec3e0e291adf1a42221a00c8c007577d52aa1ffc2eb0aa399ae1ebc22c5672 SHA1: d3ec9cdd086cb14207dc03981a50898b20ea7711 MD5sum: 46133f5ae280a80ddf38700ac0028e87 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_ext 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_ext can verify the checksums in an online cluster.