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/usr/bin/pg_checksums

A sophisticated object-relational DBMS

From postgresql-13 13.14-r5 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running pg_checksums --help (exit 0). permalink

pg_checksums enables, disables, or verifies data checksums in a PostgreSQL database cluster.

Usage:
  pg_checksums [OPTION]... [DATADIR]

Options:
 [-D, --pgdata=]DATADIR    data directory
  -c, --check              check data checksums (default)
  -d, --disable            disable data checksums
  -e, --enable             enable data checksums
  -f, --filenode=FILENODE  check only relation with specified filenode
  -N, --no-sync            do not wait for changes to be written safely to disk
  -P, --progress           show progress information
  -v, --verbose            output verbose messages
  -V, --version            output version information, then exit
  -?, --help               show this help, then exit

If no data directory (DATADIR) is specified, the environment variable PGDATA
is used.

Report bugs to <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>.
PostgreSQL home page: <https://www.postgresql.org/>
Options (9)
OptionDescriptionSource
-c, --checkcheck data checksums (default)help
-d, --disabledisable data checksumshelp
-e, --enableenable data checksumshelp
-f, --filenode FILENODEcheck only relation with specified filenodehelp
-N, --no-syncdo not wait for changes to be written safely to diskhelp
-P, --progressshow progress informationhelp
-v, --verboseoutput verbose messageshelp
-V, --versionoutput version information, then exithelp
-?, --helpshow this help, then exithelp

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.