am Thu, dem 10.04.2008, um 23:53:18 -0700 mailte J Ottery folgendes: > Using windows XP and TCP/IP network. > > I install PostgreSQL on a client PC and put the data files on a > networked drive (instead of the local drive). Postgres as user and > localport. This works well. > > Now I install postgresSQL on another client machine and point it to > the same data directory on the network drive. Sure, you can do that. But there are faster ways to destroy your data. > > Will this setup work OK for multiple / concurrent users and accessing > the same tables on either of the client machines or is there something > else I need to be aware of? You idea is complete ill. PostgreSQL is a Server-Client-database, with one Server and multiple Clients. You can't access to the same database-files with multiple database-servers. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net