Re: Adding multiple instances to 7.4

> Hi there,
>
> I'm a little new to postgres but I am wondering (as it doesn't seem to be
in
> the in site documentation) how to add multiple instances to a 7.4 Postgres
> installation.
>
> The scenario is that I have 4 Databases all on separate systems at the
> moment that are core the business and the thought was that we could put
them
> all onto one high availability machine as instances under 1 postgres
> install.

You could either put them in the same instance or create with initdb 4
different database cluster locations and launch 4 postmasters listening on
different port (set PGDATA and PGPORT to distinct values before to launch
each postmater).

Jouneau Luc