Re: pg_verify_checksums -d option (was: Re: pg_verify_checksums -roption)

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:34:12 +0200
Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 07:53:36PM +0900, Yugo Nagata wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:01:09 +0200
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > > I'm curious about this option:
> > > 
> > >   -r RELFILENODE         check only relation with specified relfilenode
> > > 
> > > but there is no facility to specify a database.
> > > 
> > > Also, referring to the relfilenode of a mapped relation seems a bit
> > > inaccurate.
> > > 
> > > Maybe reframing this in terms of the file name of the file you want
> > > checked would be better?
> > 
> > If we specified 1234 to -r option, pg_verify_shceksums checks not only 1234
> > but also 1234_vm, 1234_fsm, and 1234.1, 1234.2, ... and so on, so I think
> > it makes senses to allow to specify a relfilenode instead of a file name.
> > 
> > I think it is reasonable to add a option to specify a database, although
> > I don't know which character is good because both -d and -D are already used....
> 
> Maybe the -d (debug) option should be revisited as well. Mentioning
> every scanned block generates a huge amount of output which might be
> useful during development but does not seem very useful for a stable
> release. AFAICT there is no other debug output for now.
> 
> So it could be renamed to -v (verbose) and only mention each scanned
> file, e.g. (errors/checksum mismatches are still reported of course).
> 
> Then -d could (in the future, I guess that is too late for v11) be used
> for -d/--dbname (or make that only a long option, if the above does not
> work).

I realized after sending the previous post that we can not specify a database
by name because pg_verify_checksum is run in offline and this can not get the
OID from the database name.  Also, there are global and pg_tblspc directories
not only base/<database OID>. So, it seems to me good to specify a directories
to scan which is under PGDATA. We would be able to use -d ( or --directory ?)
for this purpose.


Regards,
-- 
Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>