Re: two postgres server seeing the same data

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Jaime Casanova" <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>
Cc: "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: two postgres server seeing the same data
Date: 2008-12-03 21:29:50
Message-ID: dcc563d10812031329q6a42f6cdtc7c7cb4404422887@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Jaime Casanova
<jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:43:24AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>> You may have two servers pointed at $PGDATA but at no point can
>>> postgresql be running on both at the same time.
>>
>> More importantly, if you do this, you will probably be able to get the
>> two postmasters to start up. This will permanently corrupt the data.
>
> is this true even if one of the server just send SELECTs?

yes.

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