RE: [ADMIN] Question about multiple postmasters

From: "Jackson, DeJuan" <djackson(at)cpsgroup(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] Question about multiple postmasters
Date: 1998-10-02 15:18:22
Message-ID: F10BB1FAF801D111829B0060971D839F447DF0@cpsmail
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> > > > Has anyone tried running multiple postmasters w/ the same data
> > > > directory.
> > > > Any issues to watch out for? Problems with locking?
> > > > All of the systems would be running on Red Hat 5.1 x86.
> > >
> > > Hard to imagine why you would want to do that. pg_log would be
> shared
> > > by all backends, even if they connect to different databases, so
> this
> > > is
> > > very bad.
> > Where is the pg_log located? The only thing they would share would
> be
> > data directories. I plan on running each backing on different
> machines
> > sharing a data directory. It's more for load distribution than
> anything
> > else.
>
> It will not work. pg_log is in the toplevel data directory, and some
> of
> the stuff is stored in shared memory, which is not shared among
> postmasters.
>
I guess I'll have to break down and have a dedicated database server and
use tcp/id.
Thanks for the info everybody.
-DEJ

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