[Pgpool-general] multiple slaves

[Michael Ulitskiy]

On Wednesday 01 March 2006 02:46 am, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> Single pgpool installation handles up to 1 slave. To handle multiple
> slaves, you need to "cascading" pgpool.
> 
> pgpool(1) -+-> master
>            |
>            +-> pgpool(2) -+-> slave(1)
>                           |
>                           +-> slave(2)
> 
> Applications connect to pgpool(1). pgpool(2) could operate in either
> master/slave mode or replication mode.
> --
> Tatsuo Ishii
> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

That might be a good idea. Has anyone actually tested it? Also what about the overhead?
Is it still acceptable in this scenario?

Michael