Yaroslav Tykhiy <yar@barnet.com.au> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:22:15PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> This is just an educated guess, but I'm going to bet on 32-bit vs 64-bit.
>> Are you trying to copy the DB to a machine with different word size?
>> Won't work.
> Just in case, if anyone ever _really_ needs to run a legacy 32-bit DB on
> a 64-bit system, they may find it good to know that it works no problem
> at least in FreeBSD.
Right, I should have been clearer: you can't run a 32-bit database image
with a 64-bit Postgres executable. Most 64-bit operating systems can
still execute 32-bit executables, though, so you can get there by
running a 32-bit PG on your shiny new 64-bit machine.
regards, tom lane
