Re: Log-Shipping Standby Server: USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL compatibility error

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Mathias Breuninger
<mathias.breuninger@espace29.asso.fr> wrote:
> I configure PostgreSQL 9.1.5 on two servers: one with FreeBSD-9.0/powerpc64 and the other with FreeBSD-9.0/powerpc.
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> The 64 bits server is the master and I tried to configure the 32 bits one as a standby server.

It can not be run between different architectures and between
different major versions.

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> I followed the documentation but I can't start the standby postgres daemon:
>  postgres[73978]: [1-1] FATAL:  database files are incompatible with server
>  postgres[73978]: [1-2] DETAIL:  The database cluster was initialized with USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL but the server was
compiledwithout USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL. 
>  postgres[73978]: [1-3] HINT:  It looks like you need to recompile or initdb.
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> I can't find an option to initialize the database cluster without the USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL.
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> I can recompile PostgreSQL on the 64bit architecture without this configure option, but I wonder if there will be a
performancedrawback. 
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> Maybe should I go with Slony-I as it seems to work with differents architectures.
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> Have you a suggestion/solution?
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