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From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Gary Webster <webster@lexmark.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: simple question about two 'servers' on same OS
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:59:01 -0700
Message-ID: <50198A85.209@commandprompt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEHjwJ6bcg4J8Vwjj_HWWMyamzSZ0fynG3k=1RackmpvT6AWmQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/01/2012 12:44 PM, Gary Webster wrote:
> Hello.
>
> When running two 'separate' instances of Postgres on the same machine
> (diff ports), do I also have two separate installs of the binaries
> (prefix),

No

> or only two separate datadir ?

Yes

> If I have two separate prefix dirs, & only one "postgres" superuser,
> which is its home dir, or does it matter?

Doesn't matter.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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