Balázs Keresztury wrote: > I have a postgres 8.4 on a Ubuntu box at my workplace [...] > I already created the base backup with pg_start_backup and transferred to my computer, which is > currently running Windows. The problem is that I can't even start up the base cluster, because > postgres throws the following exception. Is there any way to circumvent this problem or should I stick > to the pg_dump-pg_restore method? > > c:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\8.4\bin>2013-03-07 22:11:16 CET FATAL: database files are > incompatible with server > 2013-03-07 22:11:16 CET DETAIL: The database cluster was initialized with USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL but the > server was compiled without USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL. > 2013-03-07 22:11:16 CET HINT: It looks like you need to recompile or initdb. You will have to stick with pg_dump/pg_restore. It is not possible to restore a backup on a different architecture. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
