On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On Friday 26 September 2003 21:08, Dennis Gearon wrote:
> > corruption of the databases, if I'm correct.
>
> > Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > >On Friday 26 September 2003 20:48, Dennis Gearon wrote:
> > >>I didn't think mulitple backends worked.
> > >
> > >Why? Why can't you insert using multiple backends? I mean is there a
> > > problem?
>
> How does database gets corrupted? If you have 20 backend inserting their own
> chunk of data in separate transactions, where does database corruption comes
> in picture?
>
> That's the whole idea of transactions.
I think Dennis is confusing multiple backends (legal and safe, each
connection gets its own backend) with multiple postmasters (not legal,
very unsafe, causes corruption, etc...)