Re: Separate connection handling from backends

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Adam Brusselback <adambrusselback(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Separate connection handling from backends
Date: 2016-12-07 06:29:34
Message-ID: a036ec2e-90cf-59a3-0eb0-1880720840d5@BlueTreble.com
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On 12/6/16 1:46 PM, Adam Brusselback wrote:
> BTW, it just occurred to me that having this separation would make
> it relatively easy to support re-directing DML queries from a
> replica to the master; if the backend throws the error indicating
> you tried to write data, the connection layer could re-route that.
>
>
> This also sounds like it would potentially allow re-routing the other
> way where you know the replica contains up-to-date data, couldn't you
> potentially re-direct read only queries to your replicas?

That's a lot more complicated, so I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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