Greg Smith <gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The usual advice, telling them to replicate the binaries used to create it > in the first place, isn't always the easiest to follow. It seems to me > that including a "environment at cluster creation" note in $PGDATA like > Dave suggests would be helpful for these cases; PG_VERSION just isn't > enough information. I'd also throw in the locale information used for the > cluster, as that seems like something it would be nice to have in simple > text form as well there and is also a spot people are confused about. pg_controldata already provides this information, no? At least barring the case of wrong-time_t-size, which we already know we want to fix. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
