Copying datafiles between Windows and Mac

#1

Hi all

If I copy the contents of my PGDATA between installs on Windows and
Mac, will this work ok? Both would be running 9.0.3-1.

Thanks
Jason

#2

Jason Syf, 16.03.2011 19:05:

Quote:

Hi all

If I copy the contents of my PGDATA between installs on Windows and
Mac, will this work ok? Both would be running 9.0.3-1.

No, won't work.

You need to use pg_dump/pg_restore to transfer the data.

Copying the data files only works between the same architecture and OS e.g. Win32 to Win32.
It would not even work between Win32 and Win64, let alone Windows vs. *nix based systems.

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Copying datafiles between Windows and Mac - 03-16-2011 , 12:05 PM

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