[Pgpool-general] Newbie questions

[Doyon, Jean-Francois]

Hello,

I am working on setting up a pgpool + heartbeat cluster for pgsql
replication and fail over, and have a few questions:

- Do I need the health check running for proper fail-over? What is a good
value?
- Does degeneration mode imply "read-only"?  Is there any way to make things
read-only while the cluster isn't fully available?
- Sometimes when I connect with the secondary server down, I get an error.
I can connect the second time around.  Is this normal?

Thanks!

Jean-François Doyon
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