| From: | Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Brown <kevin(at)sysexperts(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: postmaster.pid |
| Date: | 2003-01-22 07:07:57 |
| Message-ID: | 5.1.0.14.1.20030122144509.02cc9340@mbox.jaring.my |
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On a vaguely related issue: what network file system would be ok to run
postgresql on?
Thanks,
Link.
At 12:15 AM 1/21/03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I assume one of those alternatives was for the postmaster to open and
> > lock a predefined file in $PGDATA (say, postmaster.lock) using fcntl
> > or flock style locking?
>
>Yes, that was discussed. I think the primary objection was that it's
>very non-robust if the $PGDATA directory is mounted via NFS. (Quite
>a few of us think that if you run a database over NFS, you deserve to
>lose ;-( ... but there seem to be more than a few people out there doing
>it anyway.)
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