On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Tim Uckun <timuckun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It looks like most avenues for high availability with postgres are not > available if one of the machines is a 64 bit machine and the other a 32. > > Somebody on this list suggested I install a 32 bit version of postgres on my > x64 machine. What's the best way to handle this? Should I compile it fresh? > Install the 32 bit binaries? Can I just copy the binaries from the > secondary? Copying from the secondary should work as long as you have 32-bit versions of the libraries it needs. > I presume I am going to have to drop all the databases and reload them of > course. Worse than that--you'll have to run initdb and then restore from scratch. Might be a good idea to save the existing data directory so you can roll back to 64-bit if the restore doesn't go smoothly. -Doug -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
