OK, thank you for clarification, I'll "resign" ;-) and accept that mixing 32/64 bits is not possible. I continued by experiments, and would like to share my results. First of all, I'm an idiot because I had logging_collector set to on and wondered why the terminals did not give any meaningful output when postgres was started with -d4 . Having fixed that, what actually seems to work with 9.1.0 is: On the Windows host (64 bit): - just use the 32bit binaries - initdb --locale C (or any other locale that is also available on the slave) Linux replication slave (32 bit): - use CFLAGS="m128bit-long-double -malign-double" ./configure (otherwise you'll hit "checksum error in control file") When you try to connect to a 64bit postgres host, the connection succeeds and everything looks fine so far, until the first transaction needs to be transferred: then, weird messages appear on the slave. Obviously, this is the result of binary protocol incompatibility... So far, I have only tried to replicate a small, newly created test database. Next, I'll transfer a bigger database to a locale=C cluster and see if replication works there as well. Thanks again for your support, -hannes -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
