Re: Streaming Replication limitations - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Streaming Replication limitations
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In response to Re: Streaming Replication limitations  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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2011/4/13 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= <devrim@gunduz.org> writes:
>> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 23:23 +0530, raghu ram wrote:
>>> Is there any limitations to configure streaming replication between
>>> different operating systems i.e solaris 64 bit to RHEL 64 bit.
>
>> It won't work.
>
> As long as it's the same machine architecture, it probably will ...
> but if "solaris" here really means "sparc" then I agree.
>
> Short answer is to test the case you have in mind and see.

That's the long answer, not least because the absence of a failure in
a test is not conclusive proof that it won't fail at some point in the
future while in production.

The short answer is "don't do it".

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