Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DC2C2E002D for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:27:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24412-10 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:27:10 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from gwmta.wicourts.gov (gwmta.wicourts.gov [165.219.244.99]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D08542E0039 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:27:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: from Courts-MTA by gwmta.wicourts.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:27:12 -0500 Message-Id: <48482192.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0.3 Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:27:07 -0500 From: "Kevin Grittner" To: "Alvaro Herrera" , "Scott Marlowe" Cc: , "Marcin Kasperski" Subject: Re: Is it possible to convert WAL's between architectures? References: <87wsl5s98y.fsf@softax.com.pl> <20080605151932.GE16502@alvh.no-ip.org> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200806/45 X-Sequence-Number: 29383 >>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:18 PM, in message , "Scott Marlowe" wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Alvaro Herrera > 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