Thread: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: FDW, connections, master v replica

OK, thanks!

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On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 15:45 +0000, Godfrin, Philippe E wrote:
> From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
> >On Tue, 2021-05-18 at 16:13 +0000, Godfrin, Philippe E wrote:
> > > That seems very promising, though I’m not certain how I’d code that in the create
> > > foreign server syntax. My testbed is not quire ready right now, so I’ll ask instead of testing.
> > > Is this what you mean:
> > >
> > > CREATE SERVER FDW001 FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER POSTGES_FDW
> > > OPTIONS (HOST ‘FOORW, FOORO’, DBNAME ‘FOODB,FOODB’, PORT ‘5432,6432’,
> > > TARGET_SESSION_ATTRS ‘ANY,READ-ONLY’
> >
> > Pretty much, yes. Except you can only specify a single setting for
> > "target_session_attrs".
>
> OK – so using target_session_attr=’read-write’ will use the show transaction_read_only
> command – if the reply is ‘on’ the connection is closed, which will then go to the next
> host/port combination…
> Seems to me, then, it’s the libpq operation that permits the selection…

Yes, the postgres_fdw options are mostly libpq connection parameters.

> Hmm, wait a minute. Then how do you segregate connections by RO ?? I can’t wait until v14

Right. If you cannot wait for v14, that is hard luck.

You could use a load balancer, perhaps that can be configured to check
"pg_is_in_recovery()".

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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