On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:13:33AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:20:24 +0300,
> Peter Nixon <listuser@peternixon.net> wrote:
> > Hi List
> >
> > Does anyone have any comments, HOWTOs and experience running multiple
> > Postgres servers with a shared disk (SAN) in a Hot standby configuration?
> >
> > Can someone please point me in the direction of any docs on this subject?
>
> Be sure to have some failsafe to prevent two servers from running at the
> same time on the same data. If that ever happens your database will be hosed.
I thought PostgreSQL already had such a safeguard? Or is it only against
starting two backends against the same PGDATA on the same machine?
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