Re: Online enabling of checksums

From: Michael Banck <michael(dot)banck(at)credativ(dot)de>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Subject: Re: Online enabling of checksums
Date: 2018-02-24 17:14:56
Message-ID: 20180224171456.GC13784@nighthawk.caipicrew.dd-dns.de
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Hi,

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 09:53:31PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> We’ve also included a small commandline tool, bin/pg_verify_checksums,
> that can be run against an offline cluster to validate all checksums.

The way it is coded in the patch will make pg_verify_checksums fail for
heap files with multiple segments, i.e. tables over 1 GB, becuase the
block number is consecutive and you start over from 0:

$ pgbench -i -s 80 -h /tmp
[...]
$ pg_verify_checksums -D data1
pg_verify_checksums: data1/base/12364/16396.1, block 0, invalid checksum
in file 6D61, calculated 6D5F
pg_verify_checksums: data1/base/12364/16396.1, block 1, invalid checksum
in file 7BE5, calculated 7BE7
[...]
Checksum scan completed
Data checksum version: 1
Files scanned: 943
Blocks scanned: 155925
Bad checksums: 76

Michael

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