Re: Moving from Linux to Linux?

Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
To: Paul Foerster <paul.foerster@gmail.com>, Pgsql-General List <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-03-12T20:26:23Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On 3/11/25 11:34, Paul Foerster wrote:
> Hi Devrim, Thomas, Adrian, Ron, Joe,
> 
> answering to myself as answering to five postings in one go is impossible. 🤣
> 
>> Are there any obstacles that definitely make that a no-go? Do I risk corruption? It's both Linux, just a different distribution.
> 
> The question was a bit of an idea. So the glibc version in not known yet, but I'm highly confident that they will differ. A reindex could in theory be possible in most cases, but is a definite show stopper on some of our databases, because it would mean too much application downtime.

A good summary of the glibc issue:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes

With distro information:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes#What_Linux_distributions_are_affected

> 
> So, it's either logical replication or close to impossible.
> 
> Thanks very much for your input.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 

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Adrian Klaver
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