| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Christoph Dalitz <christoph(dot)dalitz(at)hs-niederrhein(dot)de> |
| Cc: | blueswimhorse(at)yahoo(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, ebr(at)tcdi(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Version Problems on Mac OS X.2 Jaguar |
| Date: | 2003-01-10 14:37:20 |
| Message-ID: | 772.1042209440@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Christoph Dalitz <christoph(dot)dalitz(at)hs-niederrhein(dot)de> writes:
> This brings up another question:
> Were it possible to use the Postgres data directory from Mac OS X with a Postgres
> server on a different OS (eg. Linux, FreeBSD)? In other words: is the contents
> of the PGDATA directory plattform dependent?
PGDATA is definitely hardware dependent: endianness, alignment padding,
and floating-point format, for starters, will vary across machines.
It might work to copy the files to another OS running on similar
hardware. I've never tried it.
regards, tom lane
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