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On Jan 10, 2018, at 3:17 PM, Azimuddin Mohammed <azimeiu@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> Thanks!=20
> But with hot standby my slave will be in read-only mode ...how can I =
just use my slave as a backup and not do any read operation and let my =
primary server do all read and write operation. If my primary fails I =
will do manual failover. The whole idea is to remove any 3rd party open =
source tools as we are not sure how well they behave and avoid any =
single point of failure.=20

Just don't send queries to the slave. (There is nothing in PG that would =
automatically distribute queries to it.)


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