Re: Patch: Implement failover on libpq connect level.

From: Catalin Iacob <iacobcatalin(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Mithun Cy <mithun(dot)cy(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter van Hardenberg <pvh(at)pvh(dot)ca>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch: Implement failover on libpq connect level.
Date: 2016-11-15 18:00:21
Message-ID: CAHg_5gqgk9bjumVStUAvJGG3U3h56POPn8p+eaJcNCe0bxyhyA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> FWIW I'm not sure "primary" is the right term here either. I think what
> we really want to know is whether the node can accept writes; maybe
> "pg_is_writable_node".

This made me think of another complication: what about cascading
replication where the middle node is both a master and a slave? You'd
probably not want to fallback to the middle node even though it is a
master for its downstream.

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