© Laurenz Albe 2022 Most people are aware of transaction ID wraparound. The concept has been well explained in Hans’ article, so I won’t repeat all that here. But for most people it is an abstract concept, a bogeyman lurking in the dark around the corner. Many people know horror stories about anti-wraparound autovacuum tanking […]

Of course most people do not want to corrupt their databases. These people will profit from avoiding the techniques used in this article. But for some, it might be useful to corrupt a database, for example if you want to test a tool or procedure that will be used to detect or fix data corruption. […]

© Laurenz Albe 2019 (Updated 2023-07-18) This article was prompted by version 2.28 of the GNU C library, which changed the definition of many collations. Such a change has the potential to cause data corruption in PostgreSQL. I will describe the problem and point out how ICU collations can solve it. The problem is not […]

UPDATE September 2023: This feature is now called pg_resetwal, see the PostgreSQL documentation about it here. The blog below will be preserved for reference. See this blog by Laurenz Albe about corrupting databases to read more aboutpg_resetwal. PostgreSQL has proven to be one of the most reliable Open Source databases around. In the past we […]