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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Load balancing of write queries among health-checked nodes
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 23:30:05 -0400
Message-ID: <CANzqJaD5xa=5GSQ36R-c_i6kjSVtiA7S9LbCs_RaEBUE4STS9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 11:04 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello. I have a PostgreSQL high availability cluster with Pgpool-II, but I
> don't use the virtual IP feature so my clients don't know which node to
> send queries to. DNS round-robin is not a solution because it can't
> distinguish between healthy and dead nodes.
>
> I thought about having a Pgpool-II instance on each client (client
> Pgpool-II -> cluster Pgpool-II -> PostgreSQL), but AFAIK it can't
> distribute write queries. I also know that libpq may have multiple nodes to
> connect, but I need an advanced health check because a node may have
> connectivity but be separated from the whole cluster so it must be
> considered dead.
>

Isn't that multi-master clustering?

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