Postgres FM

Corruption


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Nikolay and Michael discuss database corruption — various types, how they can come about, and what to do (and not do) if you come across it.
  
Here are links to a few things we mentioned: 

  • The dangers of streaming across versions of glibc (TripAdvisor mailing list thread)
  • The floor is Java meme
  • Data Corruption talk by Sebastian Webber (on Postgres TV) 
  • Data corruption monitoring & troubleshooting talk by Andrey Borodin (on Postgres TV)
  • Postgres data corruption (document from Nikolay) 
  • Data Corruption and Bugs Runbook (document from Nikolay)
  • Corruption (Postgres wiki)
  • Checksums
  • pg_checksums
  • Original pg_checksums (by Credativ)
  • amcheck
  • Our episode on index maintenance
  • 14.4 release notes about create index / reindex concurrently issue and fix
  • amcheck to check unique constraints in btree indexes (Commitfest entry)
  • amcheck verification of GiST and GIN (Commitfest entry)
  •  How to corrupt your Postgres database (blog post from Cybertec)
  • Christophe Pettus talk
  • Christophe Pettus slides
  • pg_hexedit
  • pageinspect
  • pg_catcheck


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Postgres FM is brought to you by:

  • Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
  • Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard


With special thanks to:

  • Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork 
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