Re: WAL file compatibility - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Steve Crawford
Subject Re: WAL file compatibility
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Msg-id 4AE52989.80703@pinpointresearch.com
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In response to Re: WAL file compatibility  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: WAL file compatibility  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> ...
> The source and destination servers have to be the same major PG release,
> same architecture (no 32-bit vs 64-bit for instance), and built with the
> same configure options.  OS per se shouldn't matter, but you could
> easily get burnt on configure options if you use binaries obtained from
> different packagers.  Compare pg_config output or check the fields
> listed by pg_controldata.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>
Out of curiosity, will Pg automatically detect incompatible WAL files
and refuse to operate on them throwing the appropriate error or can it
appear to work for a while until it suddenly doesn't?

Cheers,
Steve

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