| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Dave Page" <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Stefan Schwarzer" <stefan(dot)schwarzer(at)grid(dot)unep(dot)ch>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Forgot to dump old data before re-installing machine |
| Date: | 2008-01-18 15:36:42 |
| Message-ID: | 9038.1200670602@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Dave Page" <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> Note to the other hackers - is it worth having initdb dump the
> architecture details and configure options used into the cluster in a
> human readble form so we can pickup on this sort of thing more easily
> in the future?
That's what pg_control is for. We figured out easily enough that this
was an endianness problem; having had "big endian" somewhere in
cleartext wouldn't have improved matters.
regards, tom lane
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