[Pgpool-general] pgpool limitations

[Tatsuo Ishii]

>> > > Is there something in the works to enable this, or is this feature
>> still in
>> > > design phase? If it is already being/been developed, I wish to know if
>> this
>> > > can be back-patched to a point release of pgpool 3.0.x.
>> >
>> > It has been already in pgpool-II 3.1 alpha version.
>> > Currently there's no plan to back-patching to 3.0.x.
>>
>> I certainly hope we won't backpatch a new feature. That would be insane.
>>
> 
> I don't consider this a new feature. I'd say this is unexpected side-effect
> (a.k.a bug) of pcp_attach_node, since nowhere in the docs does is say that
> invoking pcp_attach_node would drop all client connections.

This behavior has not been changed since pcp_attach_node was born in
2006. Moreover, the enhancement in 3.1 is only for steaming
replication mode. Other modes including replication mode does not take
advantage of this.
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