On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:41, Andrew Watkins wrote:
> I'm writing a parallel/distributed application that assesses the 
> performance impact of frequent insertions/selects to databases on 
> parallel file systems in a linux cluster environment.  Currently, the 
> application calls for a database server to be running on each node of 
> the cluster. Since my end-users may or may not have root access to the 
> machines in the various clusters being used, I'm installing postgres 
> from within the user's account to facilitate the starting and stopping 
> of the postmaster without the need of root access.  My general question 
> is if anyone has experience with such a situation where the database 
> server would need to be started on each machine in a parallel 
> environment.  If so, are there any suggestions for working with such a 
> condition?

You could set up ssh keys with no passphrase and use ssh to do it in a
short shell script.

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