On 2020-04-03 21:07, Robert Haas wrote:
A new tool called pg_validatebackup can validate a backup against the manifest.
In software engineering, "verify" and "validate" have standardized distinct meanings. I'm not going to try to explain them here, but you can easily find them online. I haven't formed an opinion on which one of them this tool is doing, but I notice that both the man page and the messages produced by the tool use the two terms seemingly interchangeably. We should try to pick the correct term and use it consistently.
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