Re: verify checksums online

On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:32:19 -0400
Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM Jeremy Schneider
> <schneider@ardentperf.com> wrote:
>
> > i think there had been some mailing list discussions years ago? the
> > pg_checksum utility in core still can't do an online check right?
> >
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/app-pgchecksums.html
>
> "The server must be shut down cleanly before running pg_checksums."

Yes I read the docs. This utility has evolved over time including a
complete rename, and I was just doublechecking here that we didn't miss
a doc update in case this sentence applied to enable/disable but not to
verify. As I said I'm assuming it's all accurate but just doing the
paranoid double-check

-Jeremy