Re: Slave server: FATAL: incorrect checksum in control file - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Leif Jensen
Subject Re: Slave server: FATAL: incorrect checksum in control file
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In response to Re: Slave server: FATAL: incorrect checksum in control file  (Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>)
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   That is almost too simple  ;-)

  Thanks for the suggestion,

 Leif


----- "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Leif Jensen <leif@crysberg.dk>
> wrote:
> >  You are perfectly right, master is 32bit and slave is 64bit. I
> didn't even consider that that would matter when "just" copying the
> data. First I was using different versions on the two boxes, but ended
> up installing 8.3.5 on both of them.
> >
> >  How do I install a 32bit PostgreSql on my 64bit (linux) box ?
>
> Copy the 32 bit binaries from a 32 bit box.  You'd be surprised how
> well this works!
>
> I once had the disconcerting realization that Someone Had Installed
> Our RedHat IA-32 build on an AMD-64 (Opteron) system.
>
> Nobody noticed until I was trying to add a C-based stored function,
> and discovered, to my horror, that the binaries that had been running
> fine (including Slony-I replication!) were for the wrong architecture
> and a different flavour of Linux (compiled for Red Hat, running on
> SuSE).  I couldn't believe it had worked :-).
> --
> http://linuxfinances.info/info/linuxdistributions.html
> Bob Hope  - "I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to
> dance - waiting for the bathroom."

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