Re: Does PostgreSQL check database integrity at startup?

Greetings,

* Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter (richter(at)simkorp(dot)com(dot)br) wrote:
> There should be a "catalog" that point where tables are stored in physical
> files (I think, at least, because at some point PostgreSQL need to know from
> where to read the data).

Yes, it's pg_class. Specifically, the relfilenode.

> Based on information from this catalog, would I have a tool (perhaps, a C
> function) that check that data is really there?

You could write such a function, but it wouldn't be able to be general
purpose as a zero-byte file is, in fact, a valid file. You could just
as easily do a 'select 1 from table limit 1;' and make sure that you get
back a successful, single-row, result, if you wish to verify that certain
tables in your database always have at least 1 row.

Thanks!

Stephen