I wonder how hard it would be to run a database server against a database
that is already being run. The idea is to be able to do read only queries
against the database from a different server on a shared NFS mounted
database. The second server would need to be able to start in a mode that
ignored the lock and only allowed queries that read the database. This would
allow many intensive report queries against a busy transaction database.
Possible? Possible with a little work? A lot of work?
Another question, can a database server for one system (e.g. NetBSD on i386)
run a database originally created on another (e.g. AIX on RS6000) or are
there binary incompatibilities?
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