On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 16:23 -0500, Jaime Casanova 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. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
