Re: Multiple backends on a single physical database

No.  Only one postmaster can access the PGDATA dir at one time.
 Attempting to run multiple copies will result in data corruption.

http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php
contains the gborg project for replication.

Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:

>I am wondering if it is sane to mount PGDATA over NFS on many
>machines and run posmaster backends on them, so that all the
>postmasters are using the same database.
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>Obviously performance is going to suffer because network traffic
>is going to be high, but later we may use a distributed filesystem
>with replications instead of NFS.
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>Thanks in advance.
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>    Anuradha
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