on-disk format across architectures

Started by Tom JONESabout 23 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1Tom JONES
T.Jones@cs.ucl.ac.uk

Hi,

I'm aware that the on-disk format changes between releases. However,
I'd like to know if it also varies across architectures.

Specifically, my home directory is NFS-mounted and I'd like to be
able to run postmaster on both Sparc Solaris and Intel Linux
using the same -D option (obviously not at the same time!).

cheers,
Tom.

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Tom JONES (#1)
Re: on-disk format across architectures

Tom JONES <T.Jones@cs.ucl.ac.uk> writes:

I'm aware that the on-disk format changes between releases. However,
I'd like to know if it also varies across architectures.

Absolutely. Endianness, alignment, and floating-point format are all
machine dependent.

Specifically, my home directory is NFS-mounted and I'd like to be
able to run postmaster on both Sparc Solaris and Intel Linux
using the same -D option (obviously not at the same time!).

You lose, I'm afraid :-(

regards, tom lane

#3Evan Zane Macosko
macosko@fas.harvard.edu
In reply to: Tom JONES (#1)
Re: on-disk format across architectures

Please please please take me off this list!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom JONES" <T.Jones@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 1:56 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] on-disk format across architectures

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Hi,

I'm aware that the on-disk format changes between releases. However,
I'd like to know if it also varies across architectures.

Specifically, my home directory is NFS-mounted and I'd like to be
able to run postmaster on both Sparc Solaris and Intel Linux
using the same -D option (obviously not at the same time!).

cheers,
Tom.

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