On Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:36:52 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org> writes:
> > I moved the database from a 32-bit arch to a 64-bit arch. All I did was
> > shutdown a 7.4.1 database, shutdown the machine, swap the storage onto
> > the 64-bit machine running 7.4.5, and try to restart. No dice.
>
> You're fortunate that it died that quickly, rather than corrupting your
> data in weird and wonderful ways. Postgres has never been designed to
> have architecture-independent data files.
Any suggestions on how to recover a database from binary files when the
previous hardware is no longer around?
--Ian