Re: "PANIC: could not open critical system index 2662" - twice

On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 06:56 +0000, Evgeny Morozov wrote:
> On 12/04/2023 2:35 am, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > initdb does not enable checksums by default, requiring a
> > -k/--data-checksums, so likely this addition comes from from your
> > environment.
> 
> OK, so then what does that mean for the error in the subject? At what
> point should that problem have been detected by the data checksums?

It means that if the error is caused by a faulty disk changing your data,
you'll notice as soon as you touch the page.

That would perhaps not have made a lot of difference in your case,
except that the error message would have been different and proof
that the disk was the problem.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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