Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> writes:
>> -A relation name
>> -Corruption type (an entry from this list)
>> -How many blocks to touch
>> 
>> I'll just loop based on the count, randomly selecting a block each time 
>> and messing with it in that way.

For the messing with it part, did you consider zzuf?

  http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/zzuf

> Does it make sense to have a separate executable (pg_corrupt) just for
> corrupting the data as a test? Or should it be part of a
> corruption-testing harness (pg_corruptiontester?), that introduces the
> corruption and then verifies that it's properly detected?

Maybe we need our own zzuf implementation, though.

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr     PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support


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