Re: How can I avoid PGPool as a single point of failure?

From: "Aaron Glenn" <aaron(dot)glenn(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Chander Ganesan" <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How can I avoid PGPool as a single point of failure?
Date: 2008-01-31 09:28:10
Message-ID: 18f601940801310128r6c51ac1egffb6092aa1c55a1c@mail.gmail.com
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On Jan 29, 2008 6:30 PM, Chander Ganesan <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to point two servers running PGPool at the same two
> > database servers? If so, I seem to recall reading about being able to
> > use some kind of virtual IP address to split the traffic to both.
> CARP...I've never tried to use it for such a thing (I've used it for
> firewall redundancy in the past..which is what I think it was designed
> for), but I'm fairly certain you could do so without too much trouble.

CARP *and* pfsync.
this late at night off the top of my head I can't see any blatantly
obvious reason this wouldn't work (with at least pgpool that is, dunno
about your data)

aaron.glenn

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