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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers