On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> writes:
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> OS per se shouldn't matter
>
>> unless you try to do it between windows and some flavor of linux
>
> hmmm ... even there, the only risk factor I see would be incompatible
> locale behaviors, which you could avoid by making sure to use C locale
> on both sides. That could possibly be an issue between any two OSes,
> I suppose.
>
mmm... i was convinced windows had diferences in binary files just
like on text files (ie: in text files there are differences because of
the EOL character) but a litlle test seems to confirm that a WAL file
generated on windows could be read on linux.
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Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
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