Re: PostgreSQL server embedded in NAS firmware?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Barnham <andrew(dot)barnham(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL server embedded in NAS firmware?
Date: 2012-09-06 23:00:17
Message-ID: 21262.1346972417@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Barnham <andrew(dot)barnham(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Scratch that. An immediate show stopping pitfall occurs to me: the
> necessity to match CPU/OS Architecture between primary server and replicate
> target. Doubtful that there are any consumer NAS products out there
> running linux on 64bit/intel

Maybe not, but there are with 32-bit Intel ... if you really want to do
this, there's nothing to stop you from running a 32-bit build on your
primary machine and then replicating to the NAS. This would limit what
you could crank shared_buffers up to, but otherwise should work fine.

regards, tom lane

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