Hi, (Sorry for the top posting)
Streaming replication won't work between SLES and RHEL, mostly because of glibc incompatibilities. Use logical replication. Regards, Devrim On 11 March 2025 16:22:26 GMT, Paul Foerster <paul.foers...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >we are considering changing the PostgreSQL platform from SUSE SLE to Red Hat. >To keep service interruptions as short as possible, the idea is to set up a >streaming replication from the SUSE server to be replaced to a temporary Red >Hat server and then replace that SUSE server with the newly setup Red Hat >server. > >My idea is to set up a streaming replication for this. But this of course only >works if the data files would be binary compatible. > >So, I wonder, if this is possible. We have a lot of databases, some of them >need to be highly available and some are large too. > >Are there any obstacles that definitely make that a no-go? Do I risk >corruption? It's both Linux, just a different distribution. > >Cheers, >Paul >
