Re: [GENERAL] Detecting database corruption

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:45:27PM -0500, Jack Orenstein wrote: > > If this means, "Does the database usually check for corruption?" the > > answer is, "Not as a matter of course." > > Do you mean that this happens in a few select situations? Or that > there are configuration flags that can be use

[GENERAL] Detecting database corruption

2004-01-18 Thread Jack Orenstein
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. Fals