On 2020-05-11 19:21, Mark Dilger wrote:
1) A new module, pg_amcheck, which includes a command line client for checking
a database or subset of a database. Internally it functions by querying the
database for a list of tables which are appropriate given the command line
switches, and then calls amcheck's functions to validate each table and/or
index. The options for selecting/excluding tables and schemas is patterned on
pg_dump, on the assumption that interface is already familiar to users.
Why is this useful over just using the extension's functions via psql?
I suppose you could make an argument for a command-line wrapper around
almost every admin-focused contrib module (pageinspect, pg_prewarm,
pgstattuple, ...), but that doesn't seem very sensible.
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