Re: Fw: postgresql in cluster of servers

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 19:49, enediel wrote:
> Thanks for all answers:
> Ron Johnson, I mean the second option thet you wrote:
>
> (2) multiple application server machines all hitting a single database
> sitting on a single database server machine?

Ok, great.  To the PG server, the app servers are db clients, just like
any other client.  Multi-user access, arranged so that users don't step
over each other, is integrated deeply into the server.

Thus, PostgreSQL meets this qualification...

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> To: "postgresql" <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] postgresql in cluster of servers
>
>
> > On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:18, enediel wrote:
> > > Hello to all list members:
> > >
> > > I'm looking for information about using postgresql in a cluster of
> servers
> > > where all real servers share a unique databases location outside them.
> > >
> > > The question could be one of the follows?
> > >
> > > ?Is the prostgresql prepared to synchronize simultaneous accesses to
> oneself
> > > database among processes that  run in different PC's?
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > ?Was the postgresql database designed to allow simultaneous acceses of
> > > processes that run in different PC's allowing for own design the
> > > sincronizationof all the processes?
> >
> > To clarify: do you mean
> >
> > (1) multiple copies of *the*same*database* sitting on many machines,
> > and all of them synchronizing themselves?
> >
> >    OR
> >
> > (2) multiple application server machines all hitting a single database
> > sitting on a single database server machine?

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