From: Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais <ioguix@free.fr>
To: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Shared data dir for multiple postgresql nodes
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:35:14 +0100
Message-ID: <20181220163514.0f493bb8@firost> (raw)
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:28:26 -0600
Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/20/18 2:41 AM, Prince Pathria wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm asking this out of curiosity, if I have 2 postgres nodes on same server,
> > 1. listening on port 5432
> > 2. listening on port 5433
> >
> > What issue's I might face if I do it like this? Assuming I'm doing this
> > for multimaster approach.
> >
> > |pg_ctl -D /data/postgres-o "-p 5432"-l /var/log/pg1start|
> > |
> > |pg_ctl -D /data/postgres-o "-p 5433"-l /var/log/pg2 start||
>
> I don't think Postgres will even let you install the second node in the same
> directory.
Well, with little insanity, you could. I already faced some corruptions
based on this recipe because of bad architectures. First easy situation to
imagine: shared rw storage with autofailover and no fencing.
Shake, wait and observe.
> Also, you should name the directories /postgres/data Postgres expects to be
> installed in a directory named "data".
PostgreSQL does not expect such thing...or maybe I don't understand what you
mean.
> In fact, if you install Postgres from postgresql.org packages, it'll install
> it in "X.Y/data", where X is the major version number, and Y is the minor
> version number.
This is mostly packager decision...and a good one in fact :)
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