Re: Load sharing question

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 04:22:08PM -0400, Johnson, Shaunn wrote:
> -- Thanks for the response.
>
> -- Right now, all I want to do is some load balancing ( I'm
> -- sorry ... I should have said this instead of sharing)
> -- techniques (reviewing MOSIX docs http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/).
> -- for PostgreSQL.  I just want to spread the workload
> -- from one machine to multiple machines and *not* run
> -- duplicate versions of the database.

Hmm.  PostgreSQL requires that _one_ postmaster be in charge of the
data area.  I seem to recall someone explaining to me why this made
MOSIX not work for Postgres, but I can't recall now what the reasons
were.

A

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