Re: [GENERAL] Two instances of Postgres with single data directory

2014-11-14 Thread dineshkaarthick
Michael, Appreciate your quick response. Thank you. I would like to know how is the Shared Disk Failover replication achieved if it is not possible to share the data directory ? I am referring to the 1st solution in the mentioned link,

Re: [GENERAL] Two instances of Postgres with single data directory

2014-11-14 Thread Devrim Gündüz
Hi, On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 02:57 -0700, dineshkaarthick wrote: I would like to know how is the Shared Disk Failover replication achieved if it is not possible to share the data directory ? I am referring to the 1st solution in the mentioned link,

Re: [GENERAL] Two instances of Postgres with single data directory

2014-11-14 Thread Albe Laurenz
dineshkaarthick wrote: I would like to know how is the Shared Disk Failover replication achieved if it is not possible to share the data directory ? I am referring to the 1st solution in the mentioned link, http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/different-replication-solutions.html You

Re: [GENERAL] Two instances of Postgres with single data directory

2014-11-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/14/2014 2:24 AM, Albe Laurenz wrote: dineshkaarthick wrote: I would like to know how is the Shared Disk Failover replication achieved if it is not possible to share the data directory ? I am referring to the 1st solution in the mentioned link,

[GENERAL] Two instances of Postgres with single data directory

2014-11-13 Thread dineshkaarthick
All, I need to know is it possible to execute two instances of Postgres with single data directory shared between the two instances. This is to know if we can achieve Oracle RAC like cluster for Postgres. Regards Dina -- View this message in context:

Re: [GENERAL] Two instances of Postgres with single data directory

2014-11-13 Thread Michael Paquier
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:17 PM, dineshkaarthick dineshkaarth...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: All, I need to know is it possible to execute two instances of Postgres with single data directory shared between the two instances. No, a server instance cannot run on a data folder being used by an existing