Re: verifying database integrity - fsck for pg?

From: Guido Neitzer <guido(dot)neitzer(at)pharmaline(dot)de>
To: Rich Doughty <rich(at)opusvl(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: verifying database integrity - fsck for pg?
Date: 2006-02-01 13:07:55
Message-ID: 73E4CE23-9248-4229-BB99-87AD970C5618@pharmaline.de
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On 31.01.2006, at 17:38 Uhr, Rich Doughty wrote:

> I'm not too fussed about a row-by-row comparison between the source
> and the
> copy. It's rather a case of a tool to check the datafiles'
> integrity (such
> as fsck, myisamchk, svnadmin verify etc).
>
> If the fact that pg_dumpall returned successfully, then i would
> hope that
> all the data is present and correct.

As I moved my content from another DBMS to PostgreSQL that was no
option for us. We had to check table by table and row by row.

cug

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