On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:43:24AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > You may have two servers pointed at $PGDATA but at no point can > postgresql be running on both at the same time. More importantly, if you do this, you will probably be able to get the two postmasters to start up. This will permanently corrupt the data. I know this partly because of experience with a "failover" system whose interlocks failed. Two postmasters, one data area, and no recoverable data. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general