Bill Wordsworth wrote on 25.03.2008 19:16:
> When traffic goes up, my webserver creates multiple instances of
> postgresql.exe. At some basic level, aren't they similar to Oracle's RAC
> "clusters", except that they are not aware of each other?
No, absolutely not. Each client request is handled by a single postgres process
which is spawned by the postmaster upon connection.
It has nothing to do with "instances" or high-availibility
Thomas
