Re: Multiple clusters on one box for PITR

Leigh Dyer wrote:
>
> However, I'm running on the Debian Etch packages, which seem to make it
> quite easy to run multiple clusters, enabling me to run PITR just on the
> application that requires it. Would running separate clusters on the one
> box for these two applications be a sensible thing to do? Are there
> resource limits that I should be aware of? Any other issues?

There's no problem running multiple copies of PG on the same box - lots
of the developers do it, and I do on my laptop here. Different data-dir
and port and you're away.

Efficiency can be an issue though - you'll have two sets of WAL files
being written to, and two separate sections of shared memory to balance.
If you're not pushing the hardware though, it should be straightforward
enough.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd