> > Has anyone tried running multiple postmasters w/ the same data
> > directory.
> > Any issues to watch out for? Problems with locking?
> > All of the systems would be running on Red Hat 5.1 x86.
>
> Hard to imagine why you would want to do that. pg_log would be shared
> by all backends, even if they connect to different databases, so this
> is
> very bad.
Where is the pg_log located? The only thing they would share would be
data directories. I plan on running each backing on different machines
sharing a data directory. It's more for load distribution than anything
else.
-DEJ