On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 2:26 AM Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com> wrote: > Based on the above new options that can be added to target_session_attrs, > > primary - it is just an alias to the read-write option. > standby, prefer-standby - These options should check whether server is running in recovery mode or not > instead of checking whether server accepts read-only connections or not?
I think it will be best to have one set of attributes that check default_transaction_read_only and a differently-named set that check pg_is_in_recovery(). For each, there should be one value that looks for a 'true' return and one value that looks for a 'false' return and perhaps values that accept either but prefer one or the other.
IOW, there's no reason to make primary an alias for read-write. If you want read-write, you can just say read-write. But we can make 'primary' or 'master' look for a server that's not in recovery and 'standby' look for one that is.
OK, I agree with opinion. I will produce a patch for those new options.