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On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Jaime Casanova
<jcasanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a client of mine is obsessed with the idea of having two postgres
> servers looking at the same partition of data... i think i can
> configure two servers pointing to the same $PGDATADIR and let one off
> and the other on but is it possible for load balancing, i mean with
> the two servers active? obviously one of the two should be only for
> reading...

It won't work, and will (if you even manage to get the second server
to start) cause all manner of pain and suffering.

Look for a different solution (Slony? Bucardo?)

-- 
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK:   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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