On Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:36:52 PM Tom Lane wrote: > "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@xxxxxxx> writes: > > I moved the database from a 32-bit arch to a 64-bit arch. All I did was > > shutdown a 7.4.1 database, shutdown the machine, swap the storage onto > > the 64-bit machine running 7.4.5, and try to restart. No dice. > > You're fortunate that it died that quickly, rather than corrupting your > data in weird and wonderful ways. Postgres has never been designed to > have architecture-independent data files. Any suggestions on how to recover a database from binary files when the previous hardware is no longer around? --Ian -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
