Package: postgresql-15-pg-checksums Source: pg-checksums Version: 1.1-6.pgdg22.04+1 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers Installed-Size: 87 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), postgresql-15 Recommends: pg-checksums-doc Homepage: https://github.com/credativ/pg_checksums Priority: optional Section: database Filename: pool/main/p/pg-checksums/postgresql-15-pg-checksums_1.1-6.pgdg22.04+1_amd64.deb Size: 36472 SHA256: d3668eb8826759d77cac58c263a6fd07064ea94c3fb1aa2ccfa27ea35e81f415 SHA1: 550337d7ef208b1bb699f5364adf4244344cc061 MD5sum: 4960bab5cb42cf871ec0a1fe8868ca35 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.