Package: postgresql-14-pg-checksums Source: pg-checksums Version: 1.3-1.pgdg22.04+1 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers Installed-Size: 89 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), postgresql-14 Recommends: pg-checksums-doc Homepage: https://github.com/credativ/pg_checksums Priority: optional Section: database Filename: pool/main/p/pg-checksums/postgresql-14-pg-checksums_1.3-1.pgdg22.04+1_amd64.deb Size: 35552 SHA256: 5bcba51a6ed46ffec08f32002efd811775486ae44875093668209d7264763800 SHA1: 1ba1ec44d947e406aca2bf5cbe70d5f868836c84 MD5sum: ffa2a1a6bc7e5b7aadc67dda13912655 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.