Re: BUG #5513: High availability with Postgres

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 04:42:51PM +0000, Elior wrote:
> My company looking for some solution for High availability with Postgres.
>
> Our optional solution is as follows :
> Two DB servers will be using a common external storage (with raid). Both
> servers are going to use the same DB files on the storage (as
> active/passive)
>
> Now I'm trying to understand how Postgres can work with this configuration.
> I.e :
>
> DB_server1 crashed, so we want to start DB_server2 using same files.
> Is it possible ?

It's possible, but it's not a bug; you'd be better served addressing your
question to pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org(dot)

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