Re: PITR on different hardware

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.

> Can you go from Sparc on Solaris to Linux on AMD?

Almost certainly not --- aren't they different endianness?

> How about from UltraSparc IV to UltraSparc III?

Damifino.  How much difference is there between those architectures?
        regards, tom lane