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From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: two postgres server seeing the same data
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Msg-id 1228340401.27483.165.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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In response to Re: two postgres server seeing the same data  ("Jaime Casanova" <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>)
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On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 16:23 -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:43:24AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >> You may have two servers pointed at $PGDATA but at no point can
> >> postgresql be running on both at the same time.
> >
> > More importantly, if you do this, you will probably be able to get the
> > two postmasters to start up.  This will permanently corrupt the data.
>
> is this true even if one of the server just send SELECTs?

Yes.

Joshua D. Drake



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