Re: two postgres server seeing the same data

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>
Cc: Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: two postgres server seeing the same data
Date: 2008-12-03 17:43:24
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On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 12:29 -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a client of mine is obsessed with the idea of having two postgres
> servers looking at the same partition of data... i think i can
> configure two servers pointing to the same $PGDATADIR and let one off
> and the other on but is it possible for load balancing, i mean with
> the two servers active? obviously one of the two should be only for
> reading...

No.

You may have two servers pointed at $PGDATA but at no point can
postgresql be running on both at the same time.

Joshua D. Drake

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