From: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Cc: Marcin Kasperski <Marcin.Kasperski@softax.com.pl>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to convert WAL's between architectures?
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:27:07 -0500
Message-ID: <48482192.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dcc563d10806051518w64a1833w269ecc2b377a1519@mail.gmail.com>
References: <87wsl5s98y.fsf@softax.com.pl>
<20080605151932.GE16502@alvh.no-ip.org>
<dcc563d10806051518w64a1833w269ecc2b377a1519@mail.gmail.com>
>>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:18 PM, in message
<dcc563d10806051518w64a1833w269ecc2b377a1519@mail.gmail.com>, "Scott
Marlowe"
<scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> Marcin Kasperski wrote:
>>>
>>> As in the title - is it possible to convert WAL for another
architecture?
>>>
>>> (source database on Linux/i386, contemplating chances to restore
>>> backup on Linux/amd64)
>>
>> No.
>
> Technically it really IS possible, but I can't imagine investing the
> time to be able to do so.
We did this by installing the 32 bit libraries and making a 32 bit
build which ran under the 64 bit OS.
-Kevin
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