On a vaguely related issue: what network file system would be ok to run
postgresql on?
Thanks,
Link.
At 12:15 AM 1/21/03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I assume one of those alternatives was for the postmaster to open and
> > lock a predefined file in $PGDATA (say, postmaster.lock) using fcntl
> > or flock style locking?
>
>Yes, that was discussed. I think the primary objection was that it's
>very non-robust if the $PGDATA directory is mounted via NFS. (Quite
>a few of us think that if you run a database over NFS, you deserve to
>lose ;-( ... but there seem to be more than a few people out there doing
>it anyway.)