Re: Diagnostic functions

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Diagnostic functions
Date: 2007-05-07 15:16:28
Message-ID: 200705071716.28795.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Montag, 7. Mai 2007 11:49 schrieb Heikki Linnakangas:
> It's handy to be able to inspect pages from within a live database.

How reliable is it to inspect pages from within a database if you presumably
suspect that database to be broken?

> We already played the name game on hackers. My original suggestion was
> "pgforensics". "pgdiagfuncs" and "pginspect" were also suggested, among
> others. I'm still open to suggestions, though. Have any?

Something involving "page" would at least explain what you can diagnose.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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