Re: WAL file compatibility

From: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Radamanthus Batnag <rad(dot)batnag(at)devex(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WAL file compatibility
Date: 2009-10-26 04:46:01
Message-ID: 4AE52989.80703@pinpointresearch.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> ...
> The source and destination servers have to be the same major PG release,
> same architecture (no 32-bit vs 64-bit for instance), and built with the
> same configure options. OS per se shouldn't matter, but you could
> easily get burnt on configure options if you use binaries obtained from
> different packagers. Compare pg_config output or check the fields
> listed by pg_controldata.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
Out of curiosity, will Pg automatically detect incompatible WAL files
and refuse to operate on them throwing the appropriate error or can it
appear to work for a while until it suddenly doesn't?

Cheers,
Steve

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