Re: How to determine a database is intact?

>>>>> "W" == Wes  <wespvp@syntegra.com> writes:

W> I expect there are only a handful of huge databases running a heavy load -
W> the vast majority are probably tens no larger than 10's (maybe hundreds) of
W> megabytes, or do not experience a heavy update load?

Gigabytes: 40+ currently (old data is pruned)
Updates: jillions and jillions
Inserts: several hundred millions
Years: 3+
Corruptions: 0
Downtime: only for planned OS and Pg upgrades (7.1 -> 7.2 -> 7.4)
OS: FreeBSD 4.x
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge rackmount with SCSI hardware RAID

I sleep well at night :-)

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