[Pgpool-general] Status of pgPool2?

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> Tatsuo,
> 
> > 2) pgpool-II 1.x
> >
> > - pgpool-II stable releases
> > - the latest release is 1.2.1
> > - there are a few known bugs but they will be fixed in 1.3 (about to be
> > released)
> 
> Hmmm.  Is this being used in production anywhere?

Yes. At least I know one of my clients are using pgpool-II (I think
they use it in master/slave mode with Slony-I).

> BTW, pgPool2 currently doesn't compile on Solaris.  So one of the reasons for 
> this e-mail is to decide if we want to troubleshoot it.

Yes, we would like to fix it.

> >   - enhance the performance of replication. now the write performance
> >     is half of ordinaly PostgreSQL at the worst case regardless the
> >     number of DB nodes. Read performance will increase by adding more
> >     DB nodes. So we hope the performace of read/write mix cases
> >     increases by adding more DB nodes.
> 
> Is this 1/2 normal PostgreSQL throughput even on 2 nodes?  What things make it 
> better/worse?

For 2 nodes, nothing will be changed. I'm talking about > 2 nodes.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan