On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Jaime Casanova > <jcasanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> 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. >> >> is this true even if one of the server just send SELECTs? > > yes. even if it sends NO queries. just starting the second postmaster is enough -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general