Hi ppl, What need to do (understand, to devel) to allow several postgres instance running from several server to access to the same data (no replication at all) hosted on a SAN ?
I'm probably wrong but i think this type of dev should be easier to realize than replication ? Because all node are always consistent since they use exactly the same data ? In fact i'm asking why opensource db go only to the replication solution than "true" clustering solution using SAN like Oracle RAC ? I don't see the big advantage of the replication method (of course, for application which need more than few nodes hosting "small" db). The price could be an answer but what about a db of several hundred giga byte ? When a node is added it must contain this capacity nearly for "nothing" (i thinks its more and more a waste when number of node grow ...). Is this a planed feature ? Sincerely, Yannick. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html