Re: Reading a live database

From: "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reading a live database
Date: 2002-09-15 02:42:52
Message-ID: 20020915024252.D3CE21C67@druid.net
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On September 14, 2002 06:53 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> writes:
> > I wonder how hard it would be to run a database server against a database
> > that is already being run. The idea is to be able to do read only
> > queries against the database from a different server on a shared NFS
> > mounted database.
>
> The odds of this are nil, unless maybe *all* the servers treat the
> database as read-only, which doesn't seem very interesting.

Yah, wishful thinking on my part. :-(

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