Re: can postgres run well on NFS mounted partitions?

anj patnaik wrote:
> How do you tell if a database is corrupted? Are there specific error messages/symptoms to look for?

That's actually a pretty tough question.

The standard test is to run "pg_dumpall", see if it finishes without error
and if the dump can be restored without error.
That won't detect any index corruption though.

You could try:

COPY (SELECT * FROM tab ORDER BY ...) TO 'file1';
SET enable_seqscan=off;
COPY (SELECT * FROM tab ORDER BY ...) TO 'file2';

and see if "file1" and "file2" are identical. That would check the index
used in the second COPY statement.

I don't know, but maybe enabling checksums with the -k option of "initdb"
would make such corruption more obvious.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe