Package: postgresql-15-pg-checksums Source: pg-checksums Version: 1.2-2.pgdg22.04+1 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers Installed-Size: 87 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), postgresql-15 Recommends: pg-checksums-doc Homepage: https://github.com/credativ/pg_checksums Priority: optional Section: database Filename: pool/main/p/pg-checksums/postgresql-15-pg-checksums_1.2-2.pgdg22.04+1_amd64.deb Size: 36216 SHA256: 47af8df158acf2ebd76bb5e4311716bdb27556d1eae2c8861bc7fba48bd73108 SHA1: aece5cbca4aa23846b63e76185fe43537d8f1a77 MD5sum: 52b0c624e1fd2883bad5122d43a5864b 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.