Re: Moving from Linux to Linux?

On 3/11/25 11:34, Paul Foerster wrote:
> Hi Devrim, Thomas, Adrian, Ron, Joe,
>
> answering to myself as answering to five postings in one go is impossible. 🤣
>
>> Are there any obstacles that definitely make that a no-go? Do I risk corruption? It's both Linux, just a different distribution.
>
> The question was a bit of an idea. So the glibc version in not known yet, but I'm highly confident that they will differ. A reindex could in theory be possible in most cases, but is a definite show stopper on some of our databases, because it would mean too much application downtime.

A good summary of the glibc issue:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes

With distro information:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes#What_Linux_distributions_are_affected

>
> So, it's either logical replication or close to impossible.
>
> Thanks very much for your input.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>

--
Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com