Re: Fault Tolerant Postgresql (two machines, two postmasters, one disk array)

PT <wmoran@potentialtech.com>

From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To: John Gateley <gateley@jriver.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-05-11T10:24:13Z
Lists: pgsql-general
In response to John Gateley <gateley@jriver.com>:

> Sorry if this is a FAQ, I did search and couldn't find much.
> 
> I need to make my Postgresql installation fault tolerant.
> I was imagining a RAIDed disk array that is accessible from two
> (or multiple) computers, with a postmaster running on each computer.
> (Hardware upgrades could then be done to each computer at different
> times without losing access to the database).
> 
> Is this possible?

PGCluster II does this.  I don't know if it's out of beta yet.

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Bill Moran
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