Re: [GENERAL] pgpool 2.5b2 released

2005-02-09 Thread Richard Huxton
Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-02-06 09:34:53 -: Since I posted my original question, I realized that pgpool notes a failure of either master or slave in its log. Would we want something more proactive? snmp? Send out a NOTIFY that can be LISTENed for. -- Richard Huxt

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool 2.5b2 released

2005-02-06 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-02-06 09:34:53 -: > Since I posted my original question, I realized that pgpool notes a > failure of either master or slave in its log. Would we want something > more proactive? snmp? -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore you

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool 2.5b2 released

2005-02-06 Thread Jean-Paul Argudo
Tatsuo Ishii wrote: Pgpool 2.5b2 supports "master slave mode" which can cope with master/slave replication softwares such as Slony-I. In this mode pgpool sends non SELECT queries to master only. SELECTs are load balanced by pgpool. First of all, thanks so much Tatsuo for such a great project! This

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool 2.5b2 released

2005-02-06 Thread Julian Scarfe
> After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Julian Scarfe") belched out: > > So all I'm looking for is a way for pgpool to shout if it detects a > > failure. That could initiate the investigation of the other > > criteria required for failover. > > _There_ lies the one change t

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool 2.5b2 released

2005-02-05 Thread Christopher Browne
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Julian Scarfe") belched out: > So all I'm looking for is a way for pgpool to shout if it detects a > failure. That could initiate the investigation of the other > criteria required for failover. _There_ lies the one change that is nee

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool 2.5b2 released

2005-02-04 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> I'm not suggesting that it's the place of pgpool to *force* a failover. I > am suggesting that one of the criteria that is likely to be useful is the > inability to connect to the master, and that's something that pgpool, > apparently, detects. It seems unnecessary to use completely different >

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool 2.5b2 released

2005-02-04 Thread Julian Scarfe
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Since pgpool has this capability, how about including a hook that allows a > >script to be run when pgpool detects a problem with the master? That would > >allow action to be taken to investigate further and, if required, switchover > >or failover an

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool 2.5b2 released

2005-02-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
pgpool 2.5 has the capabilty to perform periodical health checking to PostgreSQL. Since pgpool has this capability, how about including a hook that allows a script to be run when pgpool detects a problem with the master? That would allow action to be taken to investigate further and, if requ

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool 2.5b2 released

2005-02-03 Thread Jan Wieck
On 2/2/2005 11:57 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tatsuo Ishii wrote: Pgpool 2.5b2 supports "master slave mode" which can cope with master/slave replication softwares such as Slony-I. In this mode pgpool sends non SELECT queries to master only. SELECTs are load balanced by pgpool. Other features of 2.5b2

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool 2.5b2 released

2005-02-03 Thread Julian Scarfe
> > Does it attempt any interaction with Slony when it detects a failure of the > > master? It would seem a pity to have pgpool watching the pair to detect > > failure but having to have a separate watcher process to tell Slony to > > failover. > > If pgpool detects PostgreSQL failure, Slony shoul

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool 2.5b2 released

2005-02-03 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> > Pgpool 2.5b2 supports "master slave mode" which can cope with > > master/slave replication softwares such as Slony-I. In this mode > > pgpool sends non SELECT queries to master only. SELECTs are load > > balanced by pgpool. > > Sounds good! Thanks. Yesterday I have put offcial release of pgpo

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool 2.5b2 released

2005-02-02 Thread Julian Scarfe
From: "Tatsuo Ishii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Pgpool 2.5b2 supports "master slave mode" which can cope with > master/slave replication softwares such as Slony-I. In this mode > pgpool sends non SELECT queries to master only. SELECTs are load > balanced by pgpool. Sounds good! Does it attempt any i

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool 2.5b2 released

2005-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > Pgpool 2.5b2 supports "master slave mode" which can cope with > master/slave replication softwares such as Slony-I. In this mode > pgpool sends non SELECT queries to master only. SELECTs are load > balanced by pgpool. > > Other features of 2.5b2 include: > - ability to add ti