Hi, Am Sonntag, den 04.03.2018, 23:30 +0100 schrieb Daniel Gustafsson: > Agreed. Looking at our current error messages, “in file” is conventionally > followed by the filename. I do however think “calculated” is better than > “expected” since it conveys clearly that the compared checksum is calculated > by > pg_verify_checksum and not read from somewhere. > > How about something like this? > > _(“%s: checksum mismatch in file \”%s\”, block %d: calculated %X, found %X”), > progname, fn, blockno, csum, header->pd_checksum);
I still find that confusing, but maybe it's just me. I thought the one in the pageheader is the "expected" checksum, and we compare the "found" or "computed/calculated" (in the page itself) against it. I had the same conversation with an external tool author, by the way: https://github.com/uptimejp/postgres-toolkit/issues/48 Michael -- Michael Banck Projektleiter / Senior Berater Tel.: +49 2166 9901-171 Fax: +49 2166 9901-100 Email: michael.ba...@credativ.de credativ GmbH, HRB Mönchengladbach 12080 USt-ID-Nummer: DE204566209 Trompeterallee 108, 41189 Mönchengladbach Geschäftsführung: Dr. Michael Meskes, Jörg Folz, Sascha Heuer