Hi, On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 03:18:26PM -0700, Jeremy Schneider wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:32:19 -0400 > Ron Johnson <ronljohnso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM Jeremy Schneider > > <schnei...@ardentperf.com> wrote: > > > > > i think there had been some mailing list discussions years ago? the > > > pg_checksum utility in core still can't do an online check right? > > > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/app-pgchecksums.html > > > > "The server must be shut down cleanly before running pg_checksums." > > Yes I read the docs. This utility has evolved over time including a > complete rename, and I was just doublechecking here that we didn't miss > a doc update in case this sentence applied to enable/disable but not to > verify. As I said I'm assuming it's all accurate but just doing the > paranoid double-check
I proposed a patch some years ago but it was rejected or at least not accepted without major changes[1]. There is an external version of pg_checksums which can do online checksums verification here (using the above patch): https://github.com/credativ/pg_checksums Michael [1] https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/1733/
