Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 1212599897.3776.3.camel@dogma.ljc.laika.com
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In response to Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL  ("Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 14:17 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > Would that also cover possible differences in page size, 32bit OS vs.
> > 64bit OS, different timestamp flavour, etc. issues ? AFAIR, all these
> > things can have an influence on how the data is written and possibly
> > make the WAL incompatible with other postgres instances, even if the
> > exact same version...
> 
> These are already covered by the information in pg_control.

Another thing that can change between systems is the collation behavior,
which can corrupt indexes (and other bad things).

Regards,Jeff Davis



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