Thanks Richard ! I realized that, I was restoring on an 32 bit server.
Regards, Venkat On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Richard Huxton <d...@archonet.com> wrote: > On 23/09/11 13:53, Venkat Balaji wrote: > >> Linux *prod-server* 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Sep 20 07:12:06 EDT >> 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> The server version where I restored the production backup is as follows - >> Linux *backup-server* 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Sun May 2 04:42:25 >> EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux >> >> I read some where that, Postgres datafiles are not architecture >> independent. >> > > They (the WAL files) are not, and it looks like you're trying to restore a > 64-bit version onto a 32-bit server. That's not going to work. A > pg_dump/restore works of course, and if you need replication then Slony can > handle this. > > -- > Richard Huxton > Archonet Ltd >
