Re: two postgres server seeing the same data

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:43:24AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> You may have two servers pointed at $PGDATA but at no point can
>> postgresql be running on both at the same time.
>
> More importantly, if you do this, you will probably be able to get the
> two postmasters to start up.  This will permanently corrupt the data.

is this true even if one of the server just send SELECTs?

> I know this partly because of experience with a "failover" system
> whose interlocks failed.  Two postmasters, one data area, and no
> recoverable data.
>

the worst part of learning the lesson ;)

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