Re: 2 instance of postgres service running against same db files?

From: John Gateley <gateley(at)jriver(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 2 instance of postgres service running against same db files?
Date: 2007-05-25 18:05:32
Message-ID: 20070525130532.3c522416.gateley@jriver.com
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j

On Fri, 25 May 2007 18:59:34 +0100
Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> wrote:

> On 25/05/2007 18:56, Arnaldo Gandol wrote:
>
> > Can I have 2 instance of postgres service running against same db???. I
> > meant 2 machine or the same machine with a 2 running executing postgres
> > process (if it is in the same machine, then through different ports),
>
> AFAIK you can't, and trying to do so is a sure way to finish up with a
> corrupt database.

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