[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Gail Zacharias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is the file format of the pgsql database files compatible between >> OS's? E.g. could I take some database files from Linux and use them >> on Windows?
> I don't know the answer to that, but I would be interested in finding > out. I don't think there are any OS dependencies per se, but there are certainly hardware dependencies (forget moving between Intel and PPC without a dump/reload, for example). And there are compiler dependencies, so theoretically you could run into problems even for two different systems on the same hardware platform. I concur with the recommendation to use pg_dump scripts as the vehicle for moving data. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings