On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists@serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> 'In any case the hardware architecture must be the same — shipping from,
> say, a 32-bit to a 64-bit system will not work.'
>
> Is this specific to the hardware? That is to say, can I use pitr wal
> shipping from 64 bit hardware to 64 bit hardware, where one machine is
> running a 32 bit OS and the other is running a 64 bit OS?
>
It applies to the OS. The OS determines the sizes of integers,
padding alignment, etc. Running 32-bit OS on an amd64 class processor
is the same as running it on a x86 class processor. Other processors
(such as PowerPC) may behave differently, I don't know.