Hannes Dorbath wrote:
Running 2 PG instances is a trivial thing to do. It requires a quick look at the PostgreSQL documentation to find out that:
But instead people spend their time on going out and ask how to use some poor wrappers, their distribution provides. Probably this has costed them more time than a look in the PG documentation.
I think the point of the Debian (and hence ubuntu) wrappers is to let the *packaging system* install and run two or more concurrent installations. Otherwise there's no way to upgrade from one edition of Debian to another and take your databases with you.
Now, I find the Debian approach complicated and fiddly, but I suspect that's because what it's doing is complicated and fiddly.
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
