TOAST table.
</para>
<para>
- This option is known to be slow. Also, if the toast table or its
- index is corrupt, checking it against toast values could conceivably
+ This option is known to be slow. Also, if the TOAST table or its
+ index is corrupt, checking it against TOAST values could conceivably
crash the server, although in many cases this would just produce an
error.
</para>
</para>
<para>
- Only ordinary and toast table relations, materialized views, sequences, and
+ Only ordinary and TOAST table relations, materialized views, sequences, and
btree indexes are currently supported. Other relation types are silently
skipped.
</para>
<term><option>--no-dependent-toast</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- By default, if a table is checked, its toast table, if any, will also
+ By default, if a table is checked, its TOAST table, if any, will also
be checked, even if it is not explicitly selected by an option
such as <literal>--table</literal> or <literal>--relation</literal>.
This option suppresses that behavior.
<term><option>--exclude-toast-pointers</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- By default, whenever a toast pointer is encountered in a table,
+ By default, whenever a TOAST pointer is encountered in a table,
a lookup is performed to ensure that it references apparently-valid
- entries in the toast table. These checks can be quite slow, and this
+ entries in the TOAST table. These checks can be quite slow, and this
option can be used to skip them.
</para>
</listitem>
End checking at the specified block number. An error will occur if the
table relation being checked has fewer than this number of blocks.
This option does not apply to indexes, and is probably only useful when
- checking a single table relation. If both a regular table and a toast
+ checking a single table relation. If both a regular table and a TOAST
table are checked, this option will apply to both, but higher-numbered
- toast blocks may still be accessed while validating toast pointers,
+ TOAST blocks may still be accessed while validating TOAST pointers,
unless that is suppressed using
<option>--exclude-toast-pointers</option>.
</para>