Package: pg-checksums-doc Source: pg-checksums Version: 1.1-6.pgdg22.04+1 Architecture: all Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers Installed-Size: 16 Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: https://github.com/credativ/pg_checksums Priority: optional Section: doc Filename: pool/main/p/pg-checksums/pg-checksums-doc_1.1-6.pgdg22.04+1_all.deb Size: 7236 SHA256: f00960c0f38543e9cd371c43765013c61248b1f33a9c113960c053fd51385cd8 SHA1: 9ded38d973de8005a7f8a58fbbf1884b6593f469 MD5sum: 02ebd017cfbd55f5c6af458ffc490ab4 Description: Activate/deactivate/verify PostgreSQL data checksums (Documentation) 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. . This package contains the manpage.