No. Only one postmaster can access the PGDATA dir at one time. Attempting to run multiple copies will result in data corruption.
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php contains the gborg project for replication. Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: >I am wondering if it is sane to mount PGDATA over NFS on many >machines and run posmaster backends on them, so that all the >postmasters are using the same database. > >Obviously performance is going to suffer because network traffic >is going to be high, but later we may use a distributed filesystem >with replications instead of NFS. > >Thanks in advance. > > Anuradha > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])