Recognizing index corruption (was RE: Problem with dreportcrashing)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Chris Sellitto (Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:31:06 -0400):

[...]
>> Depending on just how thorough you want to be, the "right
>> way" to do it would be:
>>
>>      Traverse the tree, following every branch, and verifying that every
>>      branch was reasonable.  (ie: the left branch points to a lower key,
>>      and the right branch points to a higher key.)
>>
>>      Verify that every leaf node reached is higher than the previous one.
>>
>>      Verify that every leaf node contains the same value as the filePro
>>      record it points to.
>>
>>      Finally, read the filePro file sequentially, and make sure that every
>>      record can be found in the index.
[...]
>
> Okay Ken, so when can we expect the utility? ;-)

Two weeks after the check clears.  :-)

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