On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote:
>> As it is, there are backup solutions which *do* check the checksum when
>> backing up PG.  This is no longer, thankfully, some hypothetical thing,
>> but something which really exists and will hopefully keep users from
>> losing data.
>
> Wouldn't that have issues with torn pages?

Why? What do you foresee here? I would think such backup solutions are
careful enough to ensure correctly the durability of pages so as they
are not partially written.
-- 
Michael


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