On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca> writes:
> > Secondly, is PostgreSQL smart enough to complain in these cases or will
> > it be silent and cause unexpected data corruption later on?
>
> It will catch anything that affects the contents or layout of
> pg_control, which includes a fair amount of stuff (endianness,
> most of the popular compile options, probably alignment). We
> don't really guarantee to catch every possible incompatibility,
> however.
Okay, that helps reduce what I need to look for anyway.
> > How about from UltraSparc IV to UltraSparc III?
>
> Damifino. How much difference is there between those architectures?
Quite similar. My understand is that US IV's are essentially a dual-core
US III.
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