Re: PostgreSQL on cluster - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: PostgreSQL on cluster
Date
Msg-id 4200FC79.8000609@archonet.com
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In response to PostgreSQL on cluster  (Yury Don <yura@vpcit.ru>)
List pgsql-general
Yury Don wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Does anybody have a live cluster with 2 or more computers running
> PostgreSQL, connected to single database on shared storage or to
> replicated database with load balancing between them?

No, because you can't share the same database files between two
independent servers. You could run PG on a cluster if it could
distribute shared memory, but without specialised hardware it would be
very slow.

Replication is fine, although load-balancing needs to be thought
through. There's been plenty of discussion of this recently, search the
archives for "cluster" or "replication" or "slony".
--
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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