Re: Backups / replication

Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> I don't know the rpm builds you're using; the 
> Debian packages allow configuring two instances on two different ports 
> AFAIK.  Possibly the rpm installation do, too.  Even if not: hacking up a 
> 2nd start script which runs postgres against a different data directory / 
> config file should be quite trivial.
>   

The situation is midway between here:  you do have to hack up the 
startup scripts a bit to get more than one server running with an RPM 
install, but the changes are not too terrible.  There's a sample and 
article about it at 
http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/en/2010/05/install-multiple-postgresql-servers-redhat-linux.html

You are correct that this is much easier on Debian.

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