Re: Installing multiple instances of Postgred on one FreeBSD server - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jim Mercer
Subject Re: Installing multiple instances of Postgred on one FreeBSD server
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Msg-id 20130508122831.GA21725@reptiles.org
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In response to Re: Installing multiple instances of Postgred on one FreeBSD server  (Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>)
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On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:03:30AM +0300, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> Pretty informative Jim, thanx.
>
> Do you remember which version, when, by who, were these shortcomings
> (different user, different port) resolved?
> At the time it seemed like a very hard thing to implement in the current
> status of jails.
> So, to rephrase, did it take a major jail re-write to achieve the above?
> or was it more on the hack-side?

i didn't keep up with the release notes, but i think the first few rollouts
of jails in FreeBSD were on the experimental side.

it certainly took a few tweaks and hacks to make it robust.

however, that was years ago.

jails have evolved into a well thought out virtual kernel environment.

ah, here you go, some stuff about setting up pgsql in a FreeBSD jail:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=23114

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