Hello Scott, >> >> Probably I was not clear enough - I meant that only _one_ postmaster >> is run at a time, of course. What is wanted is that the user be able >> to choose _which_ one at boot time (So, 2 identical posmasters, 1 >> cluster, 1 postmaster always up, 1 postmaster always down). > Yeah, that should work, as long as only one postmaster is up at a > time. They both need to run under the same account. Ah, same account! I guess I know the source of my problems now - access rights to some (or all) files were just wrong. Silly me. Thank you, Nikolai ZHUBR -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin