Re: Pgpool questions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Pgpool questions
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Msg-id 426A6B9E.6060005@commandprompt.com
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In response to Pgpool questions  ("Brian Maguire" <bmaguire@vantage.com>)
Responses Re: Pgpool questions  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
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Brian Maguire wrote:
> I have a couple Pgpool questions regarding running pgpool as a load balancer with Sony as the replicator.
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> Is there anyway to load balance selects to more than 2 servers? ex.  1 master with 2 slaves?  Run multiple instances?

My understanding is that if you turn on the load balancing it will
automatically do so for all servers.

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> Is there any way to tell a select (ex. with a function) to go only the master and not the slave?

Run it in a transaction with BEGIN;

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> Is there any way to tell a select query to only go to the slave?

That i don't know.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
Command Prompt, Inc.

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