Re: Shared data dir for multiple postgresql nodes

On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:28:26 -0600
Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On 12/20/18 2:41 AM, Prince Pathria wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm asking this out of curiosity, if I have 2 postgres nodes on same server,
> > 1. listening on port 5432
> > 2. listening on port 5433
> >
> > What issue's I might face if I do it like this? Assuming I'm doing this
> > for multimaster approach.
> >
> > |pg_ctl -D /data/postgres-o "-p 5432"-l /var/log/pg1start|
> > |
> > |pg_ctl -D /data/postgres-o "-p 5433"-l /var/log/pg2 start||
>
> I don't think Postgres will even let you install the second node in the same
> directory.

Well, with little insanity, you could. I already faced some corruptions
based on this recipe because of bad architectures. First easy situation to
imagine: shared rw storage with autofailover and no fencing.

Shake, wait and observe.

> Also, you should name the directories /postgres/data Postgres expects to be
> installed in a directory named "data".

PostgreSQL does not expect such thing...or maybe I don't understand what you
mean.

> In fact, if you install Postgres from postgresql.org packages, it'll install
> it in "X.Y/data", where X is the major version number, and Y is the minor
> version number.

This is mostly packager decision...and a good one in fact :)