Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Secondly, is PostgreSQL smart enough to complain in these cases or will > it be silent and cause unexpected data corruption later on?
It will catch anything that affects the contents or layout of pg_control, which includes a fair amount of stuff (endianness, most of the popular compile options, probably alignment). We don't really guarantee to catch every possible incompatibility, however. > Can you go from Sparc on Solaris to Linux on AMD? Almost certainly not --- aren't they different endianness? > How about from UltraSparc IV to UltraSparc III? Damifino. How much difference is there between those architectures? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq