Re: 32/64 architectures for backup/WALs

From: Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Don Hayes <dhayes(at)thprd(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 32/64 architectures for backup/WALs
Date: 2006-01-18 22:25:22
Message-ID: 1137623122.3808.8.camel@evim.gunduz.org
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Hi,

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 17:10 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Don Hayes wrote:
> > I saw a posting about not being able to backup/WALs on different
> > architectures for 8.0.6. Is this still true for the current release?
>
> I don't understand what you are asking. You certainly can store the
> backup/WAL files on any architecture you want, but you have to restore
> to the same architecture you used to create the files.

This is the same behaviour as Oracle does. AFAIK they can't replicate
between 32 bit and 64 bit . So Don, what you wrote is still true.

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