"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> writes:
> Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
>> Is there anything that may prevent two PostgreSQL servers to share the
>> same pg_xlog directory; while one is using read-only and the other one
>> is using the same partition for read and write?
> What happens in the standby server falls so far behind the master that
> the xlogs it wants to read are already being overwritten?
Worse than that: what happens when the standby comes alive, and needs to
start writing pg_xlog entries?
Sounds like a disaster in the making to me.
regards, tom lane