On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Friday 26 September 2003 21:08, Dennis Gearon wrote: > > corruption of the databases, if I'm correct. > > > Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > >On Friday 26 September 2003 20:48, Dennis Gearon wrote: > > >>I didn't think mulitple backends worked. > > > > > >Why? Why can't you insert using multiple backends? I mean is there a > > > problem? > > How does database gets corrupted? If you have 20 backend inserting their own > chunk of data in separate transactions, where does database corruption comes > in picture? > > That's the whole idea of transactions.
I think Dennis is confusing multiple backends (legal and safe, each connection gets its own backend) with multiple postmasters (not legal, very unsafe, causes corruption, etc...) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings