Re: Restoring a Full Cluster on a Different Architecture (32 x 64)

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 02:56:00PM -0300, Rodrigo Hjort wrote:
> Dear PostgreSQL Hackers,
>
> We got a PG 8.1 on a Debian 64 bits, which does a full backup (PITR) daily.
> Then we installed a Debian 32 bits (actually, it's on VMWare) and wanted to
> restore the previous PG cluster on it.
> As there are a lot of indexes, specially GiST, "pg_dump" and "pg_restore"
> are not viable - will take a lot of time!

Can't be done. The differences in alignments, size, placement, etc will
make it completly. PostgreSQL doesn't even try to maintain a consistant
file format with different configure options...

pg_dump is the only way.
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