Re: running two servers on one machine

Adrian Klaver wrote on 28.03.2009 23:37:
> On Saturday 28 March 2009 3:27:15 pm Eric Smith wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I'm trying to run two database clusters on a single machine, and am
>> failing.  I use initdb to create the two clusters... each has their
>> own directory structure.  I can start one server or the other with
>> pg_ctl, but once the first starts, the second just hangs on "waiting
>> for server to start...".
>
> Are you pointing pg_ctl at the right DATA directory for each cluster using
> the -D switch?
>

You also have to make sure you assign different listener ports for both servers
in postgresql.conf

Thomas