[Pgpool-hackers] retry of health check

[Fujii Masao]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at sraoss.co.jp> wrote:
> For record, in CVS HEAD PostgreSQL returns 'R'(authentication OK) then
> 'E' if wrong user name was given.

Also it's dependent on the content of pg_hba.conf what kind of
authentication message 'R' is returned.

> So it seems PostgreSQL's behavior is
> truely random(i.e. implementation dependent) and pgpool cannot predict
> what it acts.

We might have to leave the existing pgpool code for the old versions
of Postgres as it is, and create the dedicated monitoring method into
core in the near future.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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