Moving a PostgreSQL database from one server to another

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 14:39:03 +0200,
  "Anthony E. Greene" <tony at greene-family.org> wrote:
> On 1:16 Jan 14, 2005 Aly Dharshi <aly.dharshi at telus.net> wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > >  If the destination is the same CPU type you
> > >  can get away with copying the files under /var/lib/pgsql/ instead,
> >
> > isn't this something dangerous to do, regardless of the cpu being the
> > same ?
> 
> The PostgreSQL versions should be the same too. Sometimes the binary file
> format changes between versions.

It should also be bult with the same configure options. If you are using
the same rpm on the same architecture type you should be OK.