Re: building a binary-portable database

On Jul 31, 2009, at 6:30 PM, John R Pierce wrote:

> Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
>> I've filled a database on Linux and tried to bring it across to Mac
>> OSX, and got an error: FATAL:  incorrect checksum in control file.
>
> use pg_dumpall | psql  to export/import databases between machines.

That's doable of course, but I wonder what would it take to get it to
work as-is, when building pg from source on each box, giving their
fairly similar characteristics.  Or, if time_t is different, would it
be a show-stopper?

Cheers,
Alexy