Re: [HACKERS] Two backends at the same time

On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 10:17:53AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> You mean two postmasters?  Death and destruction is what will happen.
> I believe there's an interlock to prevent this mistake in current
> sources, but I don't recall if it was in 6.5.*.

I don't think there is one in 6.5.* since I was able to start two.

> As Sevo points out, setting DATESTYLE per-session is the right way to do
> this.  You might find that setting environment variable PGDATESTYLE on
> the client side is a comfortable way to work --- if libpq sees that

Yes, that would be a much better way. If now my perl wasn't so rusty since I
have to set that variable in a CGI script.

Michael
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