Re: pitr question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: pitr question
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Msg-id 1286986694.459.1493.camel@jd-desktop
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In response to Re: pitr question  (Geoffrey Myers <lists@serioustechnology.com>)
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On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 11:40 -0400, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> On 10/13/2010 11:30 AM, zhong ming wu wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Geoffrey Myers
> > <lists@serioustechnology.com <mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
> >  > Excuse the ignorance, but I see the following in the docs:
> >  >
> >  > 'In any case the hardware architecture must be the same — shipping from,
> >  > say, a 32-bit to a 64-bit system will not work.'
> >
> > postgres only sees the OS. It does not care what hardware you got. So
> > you must use the same type of OS: both 32 bit or both 64 bit.
>
> As I expected, thus the document should possibly be rephrased to
> indicate it's the OS not the physical hardware that is the issue.

No. Because PostgreSQL itself must also be the same architecture.

Joshua D. Drake


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