Package: postgresql-16-pg-checksums
Source: pg-checksums
Version: 1.2-2.pgdg20.04+1
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers <team+postgresql@tracker.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 99
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), postgresql-16
Recommends: pg-checksums-doc
Homepage: https://github.com/credativ/pg_checksums
Priority: optional
Section: database
Filename: pool/main/p/pg-checksums/postgresql-16-pg-checksums_1.2-2.pgdg20.04+1_amd64.deb
Size: 36488
SHA256: 550de95e09bd04fb73d1f1f54f5a3ee247bdbf08505c892fbe91b77a9f6c6759
SHA1: a2288a13a1230f4f81cc3a7378567bac668b39c9
MD5sum: 472282db4820aafbf9cab6818482a66f
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.