Re: simple question about two 'servers' on same OS

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Gary Webster <webster(at)lexmark(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: simple question about two 'servers' on same OS
Date: 2012-08-01 19:59:01
Message-ID: 50198A85.209@commandprompt.com
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On 08/01/2012 12:44 PM, Gary Webster wrote:
> Hello.
>
> When running two 'separate' instances of Postgres on the same machine
> (diff ports), do I also have two separate installs of the binaries
> (prefix),

No

> or only two separate datadir ?

Yes

> If I have two separate prefix dirs, & only one "postgres" superuser,
> which is its home dir, or does it matter?

Doesn't matter.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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