Harry Knitter wrote:
Hello, after a crash of my 64-bit server I have set up a new server (32 bit). The harddsisk of the former server is now in my new server and I have access to the partion where the data were stored. I have tried the following: I copied the contents of /var/lib/pgsql from the old installation into the same directory of the new one. Restarting postgresql fails with the following entry in the log file: FATAL: wrong checksum in control file (the log entry I translated from German, so I don?t know if it is exact the same message having an English installation.) How can I fix this?
You can't just copy files between different platforms. You'll need to use pg_restore to restore your last backup (or find another 64-bit machine to run on).
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
