Re: [ADMIN] Migrating from 32 to 64 bit

2007-11-26 Thread Medi Montaseri
I agree with you practical pointsI qualified my comments by sayingtheoretically speaking Cheers Medi On Nov 26, 2007 8:01 AM, Chris Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Medi Montaseri") writes: > > But theoretically speaking, 32 or 64-bit ness of the application (i

Re: [ADMIN] Migrating from 32 to 64 bit

2007-11-26 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Medi Montaseri") writes: > But theoretically speaking, 32 or 64-bit ness of the application (ie the > postmaster server) should not influence the data types offered by a > particular DB > version. That is the semantics of data types and cpu-arch (register width, > big endian,

Re: [ADMIN] Migrating from 32 to 64 bit

2007-11-25 Thread Medi Montaseri
But theoretically speaking, 32 or 64-bit ness of the application (ie the postmaster server) should not influence the data types offered by a particular DB version. That is the semantics of data types and cpu-arch (register width, big endian, little endian, sparc, mips, x86), etc ) offered by a part

Re: [ADMIN] Migrating from 32 to 64 bit

2007-11-25 Thread Hannes Dorbath
Laurent CARON wrote: > Question: > I'd like to know if it is possible (and wise) to just keep the > /var/lib/postgres.. directories from the old 32Bit server to use on > the 64Bit version. > > This is just as a personal interest since I can also just dump and > restore the database in about 2.

Re: [ADMIN] Migrating from 32 to 64 bit

2007-11-25 Thread Hannes Dorbath
Laurent CARON wrote: > Question: > I'd like to know if it is possible (and wise) to just keep the > /var/lib/postgres.. directories from the old 32Bit server to use on > the 64Bit version. > > This is just as a personal interest since I can also just dump and > restore the database in about 2.

[ADMIN] Migrating from 32 to 64 bit

2007-11-24 Thread Laurent CARON
Hi, I'm currently setting up 2 new servers to act as a PgSQL cluster (8.2). This basically consists in the reinstallation of the OS (64Bit). Question: I'd like to know if it is possible (and wise) to just keep the /var/lib/postgres.. directories from the old 32Bit server to use on the 64Bit