Re: [ADMIN] Migrate postgres to newer hardware

2010-03-30 Thread Matt Janssen
We had a similar situation last week, 32-bit to 64-bit OS. We decided to keep our PostgreSQL 32-bit (our backup/replication servers are still running 32-bit). We are running it on a 64-bit xen image. We used the package manager to install the 32-bit binaries. Building cross-platform is tricky, s

[ADMIN] pg_dump / pg_restore with Large Objects from 32-bit to 64-bit

2010-03-15 Thread Matt Janssen
When migrating our Postgres databases from 32 to 64-bit systems, including large binary objects, how well will this work? 32-bit server) pg_dump --format=c --blobs --file=backup.pg mydb 64-bit server) pg_restore -d mydb backup.pg I'm hoping that PG's compressed custom archive format is