<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Mark,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">there is a big change from 4.1 to 4.2, because configuration files can be identical on all nodes and to distinguish nodes id you have to create the pgpool_node_id file on every node.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Please read section 8.2.5 here <a href="https://www.pgpool.net/docs/latest/en/html/example-cluster.html">https://www.pgpool.net/docs/latest/en/html/example-cluster.html</a>.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">From your output it seems that the standby is not correctly recognized.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">HTH</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Cheers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Luca<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 5:44 AM Mark Schloss <<a href="mailto:Mark.Schloss@austrac.gov.au">Mark.Schloss@austrac.gov.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am preparing for an upgrade from 4.1.4 to 4.2.5 and have installed the new version in our test environment. After making the necessary configuration changes required for the upgrade I am finding the load balancing does not seem to be
 working – the standby database is not shown as the load balance node and queries are all serviced by the primary. Our setup is one primary database and one standby with streaming replication. I have set the following -
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<p class="MsoNormal">load_balance_mode = on<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">disable_load_balance_on_write = 'transaction'<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The output of show pool_nodes is <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Courier New"">node_id | hostname | port | status | lb_weight |  role   | select_cnt | load_balance_node | replication_delay | replication_state | replication_sync_state | last_status_change 
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Courier New"">0       | xxxx     | 5432 | up     | 0.500000  | primary | 18         | true              | 0                 |                   |                        | 2021-11-24 15:33:12<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Courier New"">1       | xxxxxxx  | 5432 | unused | 0.500000  | standby | 0          | false             | 0                 |                   |                        | 2021-11-24 15:33:12<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any advice as to what I have wrong is appreciated.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mark<u></u><u></u></p>
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