Re: [GENERAL] Slave server: FATAL: incorrect checksum in control file

2009-01-16 Thread Leif Jensen
That is almost too simple ;-) Thanks for the suggestion, Leif - "Christopher Browne" wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Leif Jensen > wrote: > > You are perfectly right, master is 32bit and slave is 64bit. I > didn't even consider that that would matter when "just" copying

Re: [GENERAL] Slave server: FATAL: incorrect checksum in control file

2009-01-16 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Leif Jensen wrote: > You are perfectly right, master is 32bit and slave is 64bit. I didn't even > consider that that would matter when "just" copying the data. First I was > using different versions on the two boxes, but ended up installing 8.3.5 on > both of t

Re: [GENERAL] Slave server: FATAL: incorrect checksum in control file

2009-01-16 Thread Leif Jensen
You are perfectly right, master is 32bit and slave is 64bit. I didn't even consider that that would matter when "just" copying the data. First I was using different versions on the two boxes, but ended up installing 8.3.5 on both of them. How do I install a 32bit PostgreSql on my 64bit (lin

Re: [GENERAL] Slave server: FATAL: incorrect checksum in control file

2009-01-16 Thread Tom Lane
Leif Jensen writes: >So far I don't get any errors, but when I start postgres on the slave (I'm > using pg_ctl), I get the error 'FATAL: incorrect checksum in control file'. >Both servers are running PostgreSQL-8.3.5, configured with exactly the > same options (just prefix and ssl). M

[GENERAL] Slave server: FATAL: incorrect checksum in control file

2009-01-16 Thread Leif Jensen
Hi Guys, I'm trying to set up a warm standby server, but have problems with running it on the backup. I feel that I have done like the documentation says: The WAL is being copied to the slave using rsync. Doing SELECT pg_start_backup(); (in psql) Copying the data directory to the