Re: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs

2000-03-14 Thread Patricia Hawkins
on Postgres high availability -- it is also possible to have a database on one machine act as master, and one or more databases on other machines act as slaves, updating data from the master. How you implement this depends on the nature and needs of your application. You can also use the slave m

Re: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs

2000-03-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > This question leads me to another one : can we do High Availability using Postgres. > If one Postgres machine fails, is there a means to have another Postgres >installation share the same databases, with the lastest data in them ? > Is it

RE: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs

2000-03-14 Thread Nicolas Huillard
serve this installation (with a few minutes gap). Is there something else to do Nicolas Huillard -Message d'origine- De: Bruce Momjian [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 14 mars 2000 17:03 À: Nicolas Huillard Cc: Ricardo Kleemann; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Re: [ADMIN] pgsql an

Re: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs

2000-03-14 Thread Jorge Garcia
Tuesday, March 14, 2000 9:33 AM > To: 'Bruce Momjian'; Ricardo Kleemann > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs > > Here's my 2 pence worth. > > If high availability is important, don't use commodity hardware - it will bre

RE: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs

2000-03-14 Thread Gary Stainburn
-Original Message- From: Nicolas Huillard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 9:33 AM To: 'Bruce Momjian'; Ricardo Kleemann Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs Here's my 2 pence worth. If high availability is i

RE: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs

2000-03-14 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Huillard -Message d'origine- De: Bruce Momjian [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 14 mars 2000 04:26 À: Ricardo Kleemann Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Re: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs > Hello folks, > > Can anyone tell me if pgsql is nfs-friendly? For example if I have

Re: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs

2000-03-13 Thread The Hermit Hacker
there is, but even Sun doesn't do NFS locking properly, and they are the ones that originally designed it ... amongst other problems with NFS :( On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > just to throw a wrench into the conversation, > > isn't thre a tcp/ip nfs that does more error checking

Re: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs

2000-03-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
> just to throw a wrench into the conversation, > > isn't thre a tcp/ip nfs that does more error checking > than the standard udp nfs ? > > or am i just blowing smoke ? Still, you are not running with the same shared buffers on two machines. Just connect to the machine running a single server.

Re: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs

2000-03-13 Thread Jeff MacDonald
just to throw a wrench into the conversation, isn't thre a tcp/ip nfs that does more error checking than the standard udp nfs ? or am i just blowing smoke ? jeff On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > Can anyone tell me if pgsql is nfs-friendly? For example if I h

Re: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs

2000-03-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Hello folks, > > Can anyone tell me if pgsql is nfs-friendly? For example if I have the > database shared over NFS and multiple db servers in a cluster? > > I'm used to mysql but mysql doesnt really support the db over NFS. > > Will postgresql allow me to do so? Don't use NFS. I would recomm

Re: [ADMIN] pgsql and nfs

2000-03-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Hello folks, > > Can anyone tell me if pgsql is nfs-friendly? For example if I have the > database shared over NFS and multiple db servers in a cluster? > > I'm used to mysql but mysql doesnt really support the db over NFS. > > Will postgresql allow me to do so? > NFS is stateless, and ther

[ADMIN] pgsql and nfs

2000-03-13 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hello folks, Can anyone tell me if pgsql is nfs-friendly? For example if I have the database shared over NFS and multiple db servers in a cluster? I'm used to mysql but mysql doesnt really support the db over NFS. Will postgresql allow me to do so? Ricardo