| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Clusters |
| Date: | 2002-10-29 13:43:38 |
| Message-ID: | 21026.1035899018@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> writes:
> together behind an SLB? Assume that all systems have a qlogic
> card, and are attached to a SAN, and that the SAN holds the
> data. Can PostgreSQL be configured to read from the SAN? Does each
> system have to initialize the DB?
>>
>> You can't do this safely. PostgreSQL wants to control its disk.
>> Someone has said on the (?) -general list that he has modified the
>> PostgreSQL code to do this, but it makes me nervous.
> Didn't Tom say that it was possible if you had different WAL logs for
> each instance?
I said no such thing. I said it will not work, period.
regards, tom lane
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