As oringanal poster, I agree with previouz comment, I too feel thiz dovecot responsibile for thiz work handoff, or should delete ability to use two host, people twitter I ask all along thought this how it work too!
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net>wrote: > so better remove the option to specify more than one host > instead let people run over years in troubles until they > find out that a logical behavior like for postfix is not > given for dovecot's mysql-connections - yes i was one of > the who thought "hey both works the same way" until > i realized that dovecot has no fun at reboot the replication > slave which was intented only as failover and used regulary > > *it is* dovecots job if it offers more than one host > to handle this in a useful way or not support more than > one host, but you can't seriously say "it's not dovecots job" > after having a half-baken support implemented > > Am 29.05.2013 02:52, schrieb Timo Sirainen: > > I haven't replied to most of the threads recently. Anyway, after > thinking about this, I'm thinking this kind of connection fallback handling > isn't really Dovecot's job. A load balancer could be configured to do it > just as well (whereas LB couldn't do actual load balancing for multiple sql > servers, because Dovecot uses long running TCP connections). > > > > On 29.5.2013, at 2.09, Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net> wrote: > > > >> But each additional link added to the chain, is one more point of > >> failure, unless he's replied to OP privately I'm amazed Timo has ignored > >> this, since its been brought up from time to time before, if he no > >> longer plans on doing it, he should just say so, so people can look at > >> complete alternatives, we are a long way passed early 1.2 series. > >> > >> > >> On Sun, 2013-05-26 at 17:33 +0200, Daniel Parthey wrote: > >> > >>> Edwardo Garcia wrote: > >>>> Yes indeed, so it seem it does not do at all. > >>>> For now we disable use two hosts, but thiz not optimum for network. > >>> > >>> You might try to put mysqlproxy in between dovecot and your mysql > cluster > >>> and have dovecot connect to the failover proxy (or proxies) instead of > >>> connecting the database directly. > >>> > >>> mysqlproxy makes use of the lua scripting language, where you might > >>> want to implement the failover or filter mechanisms you need > >
