"Dave Page" <dpage@postgresql.org> writes:
> Note to the other hackers - is it worth having initdb dump the
> architecture details and configure options used into the cluster in a
> human readble form so we can pickup on this sort of thing more easily
> in the future?
That's what pg_control is for. We figured out easily enough that this
was an endianness problem; having had "big endian" somewhere in
cleartext wouldn't have improved matters.
regards, tom lane