[Pgpool-hackers] First pcp command as PostgreSQL function

Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais jgdr at dalibo.com
Tue Apr 19 09:36:55 UTC 2011


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On 19/04/2011 11:35, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> On 04/04/2011 09:54, Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais wrote:
>>> On 03/04/2011 01:38, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Following our previous discussions I created a PostgreSQL contrib module
>>>>> which brings pgpool's pcp command as function in PostgreSQL. I called it
>>>>> pgpool_adm, any better ideas ?
>>>
>>>> Great! I think "pgpool_adm" is fine.
>>>
>>> ok !
>>>
>>>>> As a first step, I decided to focus on one function only: pcp_node_info.
>>>>> I'll add other ones as soon as this one will be committable.
>>>
>>>> I see. BTW, are you going to implement a function for "show
>>>> pool_status"?
>>>
>>> AFAICS, pool_status is not a pcp command. So as a first step, we would
>>> have to refactor this code to move it from pgPool core to the pcp library.
>>>
>>> I'll give it a try, unless you are able to manage that faster than me ?
>>
>> Ok, I had a look on that. I think we should split the 5 functions in
>> pool_process_reporting.c (config, nodes, pools, processes and version)
>> and split them with logic on a side and output on the other side.
>>
>> Then, I guess I'll be able from to use the logical part of these
>> functions from the pcp code and add 5 new pcp command.
>>
>> I'm starting the work.
>>
>> Comments ?
> 
> Sounds nice idea.

Ok, so I keep going on this way :)

> --
> Tatsuo Ishii
> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
> English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
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> 
>>>>> INSTALL: (tested against current 9.1devel HEAD)
>>>>>
>>>>>   $ cd $PGSRC/contrib
>>>>>   $ tar zxf pgpool_adm.tgz
>>>>>   $ cd pgpool_adm
>>>>>   $ make && sudo make install
>>>>>
>>>>> then:
>>>>>
>>>>>   $ psql pgpool
>>>>>   CREATE SCHEMA pgpool;
>>>>>   CREATE EXTENSION pgpool_adm WITH SCHEMA pgpool ;
>>>>>   SELECT * FROM pgpool.pcp_node_info(0, 'localhost', 10, 9898,
>>>>> 'pgpool_adm', 'password');
>>>>>      host    | port |             status              |   weight
>>>>>   -----------+------+---------------------------------+-------------
>>>>>    localhost | 5491 | Waiting for connection to start | 1.46602e+13
>>>>>   (1 ligne)
>>>>>
>>>>> If you don't want/cannot test with 9.1, just adapt and run the "CREATE
>>>>> FUNCTION" query located in pgpool_adm/pgpool_adm--1.0.sql.
>>>>>
>>>>> NOTE:
>>>>> I had to mess a bit to make the compilation work out of the box because
>>>>> of my setup of pgpool installing stuffs in /usr/local/{lib,include}.
>>>>> Basically editing my system ldd setup and configuring postgresql with
>>>>> "--with-libraries" and "--with-includes". Drop me a mail if you have any
>>>>> trouble.
>>>>>
>>>>> TODO:
>>>>>   * I will try to make it work with foreign server and user mappings so
>>>>> we will not have to give all servers parameters (host, port, timeout),
>>>>> but most importantly, not have to write in clear text authentication
>>>>> parameters.
>>>>>   * Why do we backend_weight/RAND_MAX in the code ?
>>>
>>>> To normalize backend weight.
>>>
>>>>> Feedback & comments ?
>>>>> - -- 
>>>>> Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
>>>>> DBA
>>>>> http://www.dalibo.com


- -- 
Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
DBA
http://www.dalibo.com
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