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On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 'In any case the hardware architecture must be the same — shipping from,
> say, a 32-bit to a 64-bit system will not work.'
>
> Is this specific to the hardware?  That is to say, can I use pitr wal
> shipping from 64 bit hardware to 64 bit hardware, where one machine is
> running a 32 bit OS and the other is running a 64 bit OS?
>

It applies to the OS.  The OS determines the sizes of integers,
padding alignment, etc.  Running 32-bit OS on an amd64 class processor
is the same as running it on a x86 class processor.  Other processors
(such as PowerPC) may behave differently, I don't know.

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