On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:41, Andrew Watkins wrote: > I'm writing a parallel/distributed application that assesses the > performance impact of frequent insertions/selects to databases on > parallel file systems in a linux cluster environment. Currently, the > application calls for a database server to be running on each node of > the cluster. Since my end-users may or may not have root access to the > machines in the various clusters being used, I'm installing postgres > from within the user's account to facilitate the starting and stopping > of the postmaster without the need of root access. My general question > is if anyone has experience with such a situation where the database > server would need to be started on each machine in a parallel > environment. If so, are there any suggestions for working with such a > condition? You could set up ssh keys with no passphrase and use ssh to do it in a short shell script.
