Re: [HACKERS] Patch: Implement failover on libpq connect level.

On 16 November 2016 at 23:13, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> [moving this branch of discussion to pgsql-jdbc]
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Mithun Cy <mithun.cy@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>
>>> JDBC is sending "show transaction_read_only" to find whether it
>>> is master or not.
>>
>> If true, that's insane.  That can be different on each connection
>> to the cluster and can change tens of thousands of times per second
>> on any connection!
>
> I don't think that's insane.  The command is only being issued at
> connection startup, and will only be different on different
> connections if it's been configured that way.

I agree. However, I also think we should make sure add a GUC_REPORT
var in v10 that lets a client tell whether it's connected to a
read/write or read-only node right from the start. This will save an
unnecessary round-trip and some annoying log-spam.

I'd rather not bind it directly to "in recovery" because we're likely
to want to support read-only logical replication nodes in future, but
even that would be OK.

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