On Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:36:52 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwba...@acm.org> writes:
> > I moved the database from a 32-bit arch to a 64-bit arch.  All I did was
> > shutdown a 7.4.1 database, shutdown the machine, swap the storage onto
> > the 64-bit machine running 7.4.5, and try to restart.  No dice.
> 
> You're fortunate that it died that quickly, rather than corrupting your
> data in weird and wonderful ways.  Postgres has never been designed to
> have architecture-independent data files.

Any suggestions on how to recover a database from binary files when the 
previous hardware is no longer around?

--Ian


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