Re: [GENERAL] PgPool or alternatives

2017-01-21 Thread Alvaro Aguayo Garcia-Rada
Hi. I had to implement something similar some time ago. Basically, a group of database servers (postgres) geographically distributed, with each one having a group of servers in each datacenter, and each server preferring the nearest database server, but allowing connections to a further one if

Re: [GENERAL] PgPool or alternatives

2017-01-21 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Simon Windsor schrieb am 21.01.2017 um 21:26: I was wondering if there is another option that will allow me to spool all ALTER|CREATE|DELETE|DROP|INSERT|UPDATE commands to all nodes, and SELECTs to any of the connected nodes. The apllication can actually handle separate READ|WRITE nodes from how

Re: [GENERAL] PgPool or alternatives

2017-01-21 Thread Simon Windsor
Hi Thanks for the reply. We were not planning to use pgPools connection pool mode, but its replication mode. Our tests with pgPool allow us to install a backup db via pgPool to each node, and tests loads overnight of 10+GB of inserts/updates/deletes all work fine, with only a slight loss of

Re: [GENERAL] PgPool or alternatives

2017-01-21 Thread Stephen Frost
Simon, * Simon Windsor (simon.wind...@cornfield.me.uk) wrote: > My employer wants to move from an in house Oracle solution to a > cloud based Postgres system. The system will involve a number of > data loaders running 24x7 feeding several Postgres Databases that > will be used by internal applicat