Re: Slave server: FATAL: incorrect checksum in control file

That is almost too simple ;-)

Thanks for the suggestion,

Leif

----- "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Leif Jensen <leif(at)crysberg(dot)dk>
> wrote:
> > You are perfectly right, master is 32bit and slave is 64bit. I
> didn't even consider that that would matter when "just" copying the
> data. First I was using different versions on the two boxes, but ended
> up installing 8.3.5 on both of them.
> >
> > How do I install a 32bit PostgreSql on my 64bit (linux) box ?
>
> Copy the 32 bit binaries from a 32 bit box. You'd be surprised how
> well this works!
>
> I once had the disconcerting realization that Someone Had Installed
> Our RedHat IA-32 build on an AMD-64 (Opteron) system.
>
> Nobody noticed until I was trying to add a C-based stored function,
> and discovered, to my horror, that the binaries that had been running
> fine (including Slony-I replication!) were for the wrong architecture
> and a different flavour of Linux (compiled for Red Hat, running on
> SuSE). I couldn't believe it had worked :-).
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