Phil Couling <couling@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm looking for a way to extract the data from a PostgreSQL 8.3.14 > database (cluster) that was built using an an ARM/Linux server. The > problem is that the hardware itself is a brick and the replacement > hardware will be X86/AMD64. > Sadly my backups are all copies of the DB files and don't include a > recent text based dump (fail!). All attempts so far to start up a > server using the original files have failed with a couple of different > errors (Failed to parse...). I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion > that this is to do with endianness. X86 is little endian whereas ARM > is primarily big endian. > Are there any tools for recovering data from a database built with a > different architecture or is my data toast unless I can lay my hands > on an ARM box? You might possibly be able to do it with a different big-endian machine such as PPC (it would also have to match on alignment rules and floating-point format, but I think you'd probably squeak by on those). Cedric's suggestion of an emulator is probably a surer answer though. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
