Re: Moving from Linux to Linux?

On 3/11/25 11:34, Paul Foerster wrote:
> Hi Devrim, Thomas, Adrian, Ron, Joe,
> 
> answering to myself as answering to five postings in one go is impossible. 🤣
> 
>> Are there any obstacles that definitely make that a no-go? Do I risk corruption? It's both Linux, just a different
distribution.
> 
> The question was a bit of an idea. So the glibc version in not known yet, but I'm highly confident that they will
differ.A reindex could in theory be possible in most cases, but is a definite show stopper on some of our databases,
becauseit would mean too much application downtime.
 

A good summary of the glibc issue:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes

With distro information:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes#What_Linux_distributions_are_affected

> 
> So, it's either logical replication or close to impossible.
> 
> Thanks very much for your input.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 

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