Re: Datafiles binary portable? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Datafiles binary portable?
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Msg-id 20061128160608.GE29938@svana.org
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In response to Datafiles binary portable?  (Stephen Harris <lists@spuddy.org>)
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:00:35AM -0500, Stephen Harris wrote:
> This is probably a silly question, but are the database files binary portable?
> eg could I take datafiles from a Sparc and copy them to an Intel machine,
> or would the endianness differences kill me?

No.

It may not even be compatable across the same platform with different
compilers and/or configure flags.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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