Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 14:17 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > Would that also cover possible differences in page size, 32bit OS vs.
> > 64bit OS, different timestamp flavour, etc. issues ? AFAIR, all these
> > things can have an influence on how the data is written and possibly
> > make the WAL incompatible with other postgres instances, even if the
> > exact same version...
> 
> These are already covered by the information in pg_control.

Another thing that can change between systems is the collation behavior,
which can corrupt indexes (and other bad things).

Regards,Jeff Davis