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From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
To: toncan@cse.unsw.edu.au (Toncan Duong)
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Subject: Re: Does postgres supports client/server setup? 
Reply-To: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 31 Mar 1994 11:23:03 +1000 (EST) 
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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 17:49:05 -0800
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yes, you can run frontends and backends on different machines.  in
general you can't go across architectures (although it will work
between, say, two big-endian machines like h-p's and suns, or two
little-endian machines like alpha and mips decstations).

toncan@cse.unsw.edu.au (Toncan Duong) writes:
> I haven't managed to find anything in the installation manual relevant to
> the matter.

the 4.2 user manual, on the other hand, even has a little picture 
that shows how the processes are divided up.

it's a good idea to print out doc/manual.ps (you may as well print 
doc/ref.ps, too).
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