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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:44:49 +0100
From: Thomas Markus <t.markus@proventis.net>
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Subject: Re: Creating Multiple Instance
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Hi,

thats possible. Dont forget so set another port in your postgresql.conf

Thomas

Am 13.12.2011 09:23, schrieb Selva manickaraja:
> Hi All,
>
> We are planning to create a 2nd instance of postgres db in the same 
> server. The reason is simple. After we added another application, the 
> number of WAL(s) created is too much. So we want to separate the db by 
> moving it out to another instance of postgres in the same machine. We 
> want to study that new application the new db independently to 
> understand what could go wrong. Meanwhile we want the operations and 
> backups on our existing db running on 5432 port to be going on as usual.
>
> Steps we took:
>
> 1.Create a new cluster "/pgs/903/data_5433"
> 2. Start the db instance using new parameters i.e. - (su - postgres -c 
> "/opt/pgs/903/bin/pg_ctl -w start -D \"/pgs/903/data_5433\" -l 
> \"/pgs/903/data_5433/pg_log/startup.log\"")
>
> Unfortunately we got the following error.
>
> pg_ctl: another server might be running; trying to start server anyway
> waiting for server to start... done
> server started
>
> First of all, we want to know if at all it is possible to do this in 
> PostgreSQL, or whether we missed out any important steps.
>
> Please help.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Selvam
>
>