John Gage wrote: > I just wondered if I could access the same 8.4.2 server from the Windows > partition (XP via "Bootcamp") as I do from the Mac partition on my Mac? If I understand correctly, Boot Camp doesn't permit both Mac OS X and Windows to run at the same time, right? You can run one or the other, and to switch you must reboot? If that's the case, then you can't run one server instance and share it via the network between the two "personalities". You *might* be able to share the data directory if the Mac OS X system can read/write the Windows NTFS partition or vice versa. This is probably risky, as I wouldn't trust Mac OS X's NTFS support to be safe to run a database on, nor any Apple-provided HFS+ driver for XP to be safe for that purpose. I wouldn't run Pg on FAT32 either. Personally, what I'd do would be create a virtual machine image with something like VMWare - something that is supported on both Mac OS X and on Windows. Put it somewhere both systems can access it - probably the Windows NTFS partition. Then, whichever OS you're using, start the virtual machine with Pg on it and use that server over the virtual network between the VM and the real host. Alternately, you could just point Pg at a data-dir on storage that both systems can access, as described earlier. I'd be pretty wary of doing this, though. -- Craig Ringer -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
