My company is developing a PostgreSQL 7.4 application. We don't want our customers to have to manage the database. If the database ever becomes corrupt, we have procedures for restoring the database from backup data. The question we've been wondering about is how to detect a corrupt database. False positives are acceptable (database isn't really corrupt but we think it is); false negatives are not, (database is corrupt but we can't tell).
- Are any cases of corruption detected in the normal operation of PostgreSQL?
- If there are, then how are applications notified when corruption is detected?
- What symptoms should prompt us to suspect and check for corruption?
- Are there any tools we can run to determine whether a database is corrupt?
Jack Orenstein
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