From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
Cc: | NTPT <ntpt(at)centrum(dot)cz>, PgSQL General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Filesystem level backup and 32 / 64 bit |
Date: | 2005-03-15 15:09:35 |
Message-ID: | 6196.1110899375@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:29:51PM +0100, NTPT wrote:
>> Is it posssible to take a "filesystem level backup" (copyiing all in=20
>> $PGDATA directory) from 64 bit system and use it as $PGDATA in the native=
>> 32 bit system with the same version of postgresql ?
> Doubt it, it's not explicitly supported. It might work, but padding
> changes, certain width changes, may screw you up.
It might work if the main server were compiled as a 32-bit application
... but AFAIK the Intel-ish 64bit architectures mostly suck in 32-bit
emulation mode, so you'd not want to do that. It will almost certainly
*not* work to just cram 64-bit files onto a 32-bit machine, because the
file layout is dependent on MAXALIGN which will likely be different.
> Use something like Slony, it's specifically supports this kind of
> usage...
Agreed.
regards, tom lane
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