Re: Warm Standby Weirdness

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Yaroslav Tykhiy <yar(at)barnet(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Sam Nelson <samn(at)consistentstate(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Warm Standby Weirdness
Date: 2010-08-23 03:00:49
Message-ID: 28078.1282532449@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Yaroslav Tykhiy <yar(at)barnet(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:22:15PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> This is just an educated guess, but I'm going to bet on 32-bit vs 64-bit.
>> Are you trying to copy the DB to a machine with different word size?
>> Won't work.

> Just in case, if anyone ever _really_ needs to run a legacy 32-bit DB on
> a 64-bit system, they may find it good to know that it works no problem
> at least in FreeBSD.

Right, I should have been clearer: you can't run a 32-bit database image
with a 64-bit Postgres executable. Most 64-bit operating systems can
still execute 32-bit executables, though, so you can get there by
running a 32-bit PG on your shiny new 64-bit machine.

regards, tom lane

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