Re: Online verification of checksums

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 03.03.2019, 11:51 +0100 schrieb Michael Banck:
> Am Samstag, den 02.03.2019, 11:08 -0500 schrieb Stephen Frost:
> > I'm not necessairly against skipping to the next file, to be clear,
> > but I think I'd be happier if we kept reading the file until we
> > actually get EOF.
>
> So if we read half a block twice we should seek() to the next block and
> continue till EOF, ok. I think in most cases those pages will be new
> anyway and there will be no checksum check, but it sounds like a cleaner
> approach. I've seen one or two examples where we did successfully verify
> the checksum of a page after a half-read, so it might be worth it.

I've done that now, i.e. it seeks to the next block and continues to
read there (possibly getting an EOF).

I don't issue a warning for this skipped block anymore as it is somewhat
to be expected that we see some half-reads. If the seek fails for some
reason, that is still a warning.

> I still think that an external checksum verification tool has some
> merit, given that basebackup does it and the current offline requirement
> is really not useful in practise.

I've read the rest of the thread, and it seems several people prefer a
solution that interacts with the server. I won't be able to work on that
for v12 and I guess it would be too late in the cycle anyway.

I thought about I/O throttling in online mode, but it seems to be most
easily tied in with the progress reporting (that already keeps track of
everything or most of what we'd need), so I will work on it in that
context.

Michael

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