| From: | Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PITR on different hardware |
| Date: | 2005-09-06 21:09:33 |
| Message-ID: | 1126040973.722.89.camel@home |
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On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca> writes:
> > Secondly, is PostgreSQL smart enough to complain in these cases or will
> > it be silent and cause unexpected data corruption later on?
>
> It will catch anything that affects the contents or layout of
> pg_control, which includes a fair amount of stuff (endianness,
> most of the popular compile options, probably alignment). We
> don't really guarantee to catch every possible incompatibility,
> however.
Okay, that helps reduce what I need to look for anyway.
> > How about from UltraSparc IV to UltraSparc III?
>
> Damifino. How much difference is there between those architectures?
Quite similar. My understand is that US IV's are essentially a dual-core
US III.
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