Package: postgresql-13-pg-checksums Source: pg-checksums Version: 1.3-2.pgdg22.04+1 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers Installed-Size: 89 Depends: postgresql-13, libc6 (>= 2.34) Recommends: pg-checksums-doc Homepage: https://github.com/credativ/pg_checksums Priority: optional Section: database Filename: pool/main/p/pg-checksums/postgresql-13-pg-checksums_1.3-2.pgdg22.04+1_amd64.deb Size: 35604 SHA256: 6bc303ad5013a9219cb1edccb059e0d1955d2386c91a73d7a8c487db6d3cfc3b SHA1: 022bb88616ff89561aab629b4b7c68c92b6d063e MD5sum: 327ac1c8bef16f5d0719c11d7794d768 Description: Activate/deactivate/verify PostgreSQL data checksums Data checksums allow the PostgreSQL database server to identify I/O failures when reading data from storage. The checksums stored in the page header of each data page are compared to the computed checksum of the read data. . Data checksums need to be activated at instance creation time, all current versions of PostgreSQL including v11 do not allow activating (or deactivating) checksums afterwards. . pg_checksums_ext can activate or deactivate data checksums as long at the database cluster is shutdown cleanly. Activating checksums requires all database blocks to be read and all page headers to be updated, so can take a long time on a large database. Deactivating checksums only requires the cluster control file to be updated so is quick. . In addition, pg_checksums_ext can verify the checksums in an online cluster.