Re: Storing the data on a portable extenal hard drive

From: Sean Davis <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov>
To: Sindile Bidla <sindile(dot)bidla(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Storing the data on a portable extenal hard drive
Date: 2010-07-09 13:22:42
Message-ID: AANLkTiniDT32geQp_mKS4bcLGtNELjWYvH6yzFy7nPjz@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Sindile Bidla <sindile(dot)bidla(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> I a running Windows 7 64bit.
> Is it possible to store the PostgreSQL data (database) on a usb
> external hard-drive and be able to use this on multiple computers running
> either Windows or Linux. That is as long as the PostgreSQL is installed on
> each computer.
>

While probably possible, this doesn't sound like a very robust solution.
Why not just connect to a single server from the multiple machines?

Sean

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