I prefer to have my live and test databases on separate systems, if only because each one takes up well over 100 GB of disk space.
Our hardware firewall doesn't support port changes, but I was able to get the rinetd port redirector working to redirect 5431 to 5432 on the test system.. (And it works with psql now, too, I'm not sure why it didn't work before.)
So, I've got a solution that works for me. Thanks, everyone.
That's '30' for this thread. :-)
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On 8/31/06, Shane Ambler <pgsql@007marketing.com> wrote: Obviously the test section has separate configurations to the live section -
simply have 2 databases defined in the same server 'ourlivedatabase' and
'ourtestdatabase'. This still gives one small login/config setting that
changes between live and dev.
On 31/8/2006 12:20, "Kelly Burkhart" <kelly@kkcsm.net> wrote:
> On 8/30/06, Michael Nolan < htfoot@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Situation in a nutshell:
>>
>> Production and test databases are on two separate systems inside the
>> firewall. The web server is at an ISP, outside the firewall.
>>
>> The firewall sends all data coming from the ISP, port 5432 to a specific IP
>> address inside the firewall: port 5432, which is the production serve.
>>
>> Test transactions need to go to the other server, which has to be the same
>> IP address (the address of the firewall), so it needs to be a different
>> port, but I'm not sure if the port translator in the firewall will do any
>> better at getting a response that than a port translator on the test server
>> does.
>>
>> However, I also need the test database responding to requests on port 5432.
>
> Your firewall can probably redirect firewallhost:5431 to
> insidehost:5432. If not, you could use something like simpleproxy on
> insidehost to do what you want.
>
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/simpleproxy/>
>
> -K
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