Ian Turner <vectro@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? Install 32-bit Postgres executables. I'm not aware of any 64-bit hardware that isn't able to run code built for its 32-bit predecessor. (You might then wish to dump and reload into a 64-bit installation, but whether you do or not, that's the next step.) 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
