Re: Amcheck verification of GiST and GIN

From: Michael Banck <mbanck(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Andrey Borodin <amborodin86(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jose Arthur Benetasso Villanova <jose(dot)arthur(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Amcheck verification of GiST and GIN
Date: 2023-02-22 08:51:32
Message-ID: 63f5d795.170a0220.4c4d2.8257@mx.google.com
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Hi,

On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 12:56:47PM -0800, Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 12:43 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
> > I think that that problem should be solved at a higher level, in the
> > program that runs amcheck. Note that pg_amcheck will already do this
> > for B-Tree indexes.
>
> That's a great tool, and it's great it supports parallelization, very useful
> on large machines.

Right, but unfortunately not an option on managed services. It's clear
that this restriction should not be a general guideline for Postgres
development, but it makes the amcheck extension (that is now shipped
everywhere due to being in-code I believe) somewhat less useful for
use-case of checking your whole database for corruption.

Michael

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