Re: Streaming Replication limitations

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, raghu ram <raghuchennuru(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Streaming Replication limitations
Date: 2011-04-13 18:34:47
Message-ID: BANLkTikL+0V+ZFToy3o66o02=rxEq47=mA@mail.gmail.com
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2011/4/13 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> writes:
>> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 23:23 +0530, raghu ram wrote:
>>> Is there any limitations to configure streaming replication between
>>> different operating systems i.e solaris 64 bit to RHEL 64 bit.
>
>> It won't work.
>
> As long as it's the same machine architecture, it probably will ...
> but if "solaris" here really means "sparc" then I agree.
>
> Short answer is to test the case you have in mind and see.

That's the long answer, not least because the absence of a failure in
a test is not conclusive proof that it won't fail at some point in the
future while in production.

The short answer is "don't do it".

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 Simon Riggs                   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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