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From Pavan Deolasee
Subject Re: Postgres on shared network drive
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Msg-id 2e78013d0804110455o473e0e7epc480b28e866ef75e@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Postgres on shared network drive  ("A. Kretschmer" <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>)
Responses Re: Postgres on shared network drive  (Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>)
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:04 PM, A. Kretschmer
<andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com> wrote:
>
>
>  You idea is complete ill. PostgreSQL is a Server-Client-database, with
>  one Server and multiple Clients. You can't access to the same
>  database-files with multiple database-servers.
>

I wonder if it would make sense to add support to mount database in
*read-only* mode from multiple servers though. I am thinking about
data warehouse kind of operations where multiple servers can be
used answer read-only queries. Is there a use case for such applications
in real world ?


Thanks,
Pavan

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