Re: [HACKERS] PITR on different hardware

2005-09-06 Thread Rod Taylor
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > 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

Re: [HACKERS] PITR on different hardware

2005-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
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

[HACKERS] PITR on different hardware

2005-09-06 Thread Rod Taylor
I didn't see anything mentioned in the docs about this, so I'm curious as to how significant of a change you can make to the hardware or software configuration for a restore before breaking things. Secondly, is PostgreSQL smart enough to complain in these cases or will it be silent and cause unexp