Hi, On Fri, Feb 06, 2026 at 12:15:27AM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote: > It's a bit unfortunate we only detect invalid checksums if the failures > appear in the server log. I wonder if we could run pg_checksums after > the cluster gets shut down in 'fast' mode (we can't do that with > immediate shutdowns, of course).
Well, maybe we could do that with immediate shutdowns if we add a --force parameter to pg_checksums that is clearly labelled/docmented as being dangerous for running instances (but the instance wouldn't run in this case). Or something undocumented like --debug-force-unclean-controlfile. Michael
