Re: running two servers on one machine

Thomas,

When I start the servers, I use different ports via the -p option. Is
that equivalent to using different listener ports in postgresql.conf?

Thanks,
Eric

On Mar 28, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote:

> Adrian Klaver wrote on 28.03.2009 23:37:
>> On Saturday 28 March 2009 3:27:15 pm Eric Smith wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to run two database clusters on a single machine, and am
>>> failing. I use initdb to create the two clusters... each has their
>>> own directory structure. I can start one server or the other with
>>> pg_ctl, but once the first starts, the second just hangs on "waiting
>>> for server to start...".
>> Are you pointing pg_ctl at the right DATA directory for each
>> cluster using the -D switch?
>
> You also have to make sure you assign different listener ports for
> both servers in postgresql.conf
>
> Thomas
>
>
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