On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:13:33AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:20:24 +0300, > Peter Nixon <listuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi List > > > > Does anyone have any comments, HOWTOs and experience running multiple > > Postgres servers with a shared disk (SAN) in a Hot standby configuration? > > > > Can someone please point me in the direction of any docs on this subject? > > Be sure to have some failsafe to prevent two servers from running at the > same time on the same data. If that ever happens your database will be hosed. I thought PostgreSQL already had such a safeguard? Or is it only against starting two backends against the same PGDATA on the same machine? -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org