Re: 64-bit mirrors

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> I've been working for the past couple of months on building a new machine
>>> for
>>> pgFoundry and to be a PostgreSQL mirror.  It's hard for me to justify,
>>> though, NOT going Opteron.
>>>
>>> So, my question is, if I put pgFoundry on an Opteron machine, is there
>>> another
>>> 64-bit machine in the postgresql network I could mirror it to in case of
>>> failure?  This seems better to me than letting our 32-bit dependancy drag
>>> on
>>> because we can't afford to upgrade all the machines at once.
>>
>>
>> Is there anything that has to be mirrored that is 64 vs 32bit dependent?
>
> Well the PostgreSQL data directory for example. You can't take a data dir
> from an i586 and push it to a x86_64 compiled postgresql.

Shouldn't be doing that anyway ... the plan is to use slony for real-time
replication of the data itself ...

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