Re: Patch: Implement failover on libpq connect level.

On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 10:10:33 +0530
Mithun Cy <mithun(dot)cy(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:47 AM, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>
> wrote:
> >Since there has been no response from the author I have marked this
> >patch
> "returned with feedback". Please feel free >to resubmit for 9.7!
> I have started to work on this patch, and tried to fix some of the
> issues discussed above. The most recent patch 06 has fixed many
> issues which was raised previously which include indefinite looping,
> crashes. And, some of the issues which remain pending are.

Although I have not resubmutted my patch yet, I've continue to work on
it, so you can see my last version on

https://www.wagner.pp.ru/fossil/pgfailover.

It seems that I've already fixed some of issues you mentioned below.
Also I've added testsuite, which is incomplete.

> JFYI Interestingly PostgreSql JDBC driver have following options
> targetServerType=any|master|slave|preferSlave for same purpose.

Probably we should havbe a comptibility alias.

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Victor Wagner <vitus(at)wagner(dot)pp(dot)ru>