Re: 32/64 architectures for backup/WALs

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 17:10 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Don Hayes wrote:
> > I saw a posting about not being able to backup/WALs on different
> > architectures for 8.0.6. Is this still true for the current release?
>
> I don't understand what you are asking.  You certainly can store the
> backup/WAL files on any architecture you want, but you have to restore
> to the same architecture you used to create the files.

This is the same behaviour as Oracle does. AFAIK they can't replicate
between 32 bit and 64 bit . So Don, what you wrote is still true.

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