Re: Postgresql on SAN - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Postgresql on SAN
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Msg-id 200407061910.44125.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Postgresql on SAN  (Yannick Lecaillez <yl@itioweb.com>)
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Yannick Lecaillez wrote:
>     What need to do (understand, to devel) to allow several
> postgres instance  running from several server to access to the
> same data (no replication at all) hosted on a SAN ?

This is impossible.

You can use a SAN if only one node is active at a time, and that is 
indeed a good high-availability solution that is usually easier to set 
up and maintain than replication, but you can't have several instances 
running on the same data at once.



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