Thomas Papke wrote:
> AN other question: Are the postgres datafiles (not the dump) platform
> independ?

No.

> So is it possible to just copy the datafiles from linux to 
> a windows machine if they are running the same postgres version?

There is no guarantee or direct check against this, but anecdotal 
evidence suggests that this combination will not work.  In general, the 
data file compatibility is determined by some combination of 
architecture and compiler settings.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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