I won't claim to understand that fully, but just would say that I'd be worried if a postmaster went down -- worried enough that I'd want to have backup hardware in a mission-critical situation, not just a backup postmaster instance. What's the theoretical case in which a postmaster dies or is inaccessible but the same machine could serve the same database with a different process?
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Naomi Walker wrote: > At 12:18 PM 6/3/2002 , Andrew Perrin wrote: > >What's the reason for doing this? Just use separate databases -- if > >necessary, with different users given permissions on each -- in the same > >postmaster instance. > > We will be using separate instances for failover purposes in our clustered > environment. > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
