On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 13:25 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > > > In general, log shipping between servers running different release > > levels will not be possible. However, it may be possible for servers > > running different minor release levels e.g. 8.2.1 and 8.2.2 to > > inter-operate successfully. No formal support for that is offered and > > there may be minor releases where that is not possible, so it is unwise > > to rely on that capability.
> My memory is lousy at the best of times, but when have we had a minor > release that would have broken this due to changed format? OTOH, the > Primary and Backup servers need the same config settings (e.g. > --enable-integer-datetimes), architecture, compiler, etc, do they not? > Probably working from an identical set of binaries would be ideal. Not often, which is why I mention the possibility of having interoperating minor release levels at all. If it was common, I'd just put a blanket warning on doing that. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
