Re: How can I avoid PGPool as a single point of failure? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Aaron Glenn
Subject Re: How can I avoid PGPool as a single point of failure?
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In response to Re: How can I avoid PGPool as a single point of failure?  (Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com>)
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On Jan 29, 2008 6:30 PM, Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com> wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to point two servers running PGPool at the same two
> > database servers? If so, I seem to recall reading about being able to
> > use some kind of virtual IP address to split the traffic to both.
> CARP...I've never tried to use it for such a thing (I've used it for
> firewall redundancy in the past..which is what I think it was designed
> for), but I'm fairly certain you could do so without too much trouble.

CARP *and* pfsync.
this late at night off the top of my head I can't see any blatantly
obvious reason this wouldn't work (with at least pgpool that is, dunno
about your data)

aaron.glenn

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