[pgpool-general: 537] Re: load balancing seems to be bottlenecked by performance of master

Tatsuo Ishii ishii at postgresql.org
Tue May 29 09:23:15 JST 2012


> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at sraoss.co.jp> wrote:
>>> What are the reasons for analysing system catalogs on primary server?
>>
>> For example, if a table is a temporary one or not.
> 
> Yes, but as I noted, I don't use temp tables at all.  If this is the
> primary justification, then its not doing me any good, and causing
> unnecessary negative performance impact.

But how does pgpool know that you are not going to use temporary
tables beforehand?

> I understand if this isn't something you can fix right now, but I'm
> not even getting the impression that you consider this to be a design
> flaw.  A high write volume on the master should never impact the
> response time of any standby/slave with a read query.  This literally
> means that pgpool doesn't scale well in write heavy environments.

That's why I asked you any idea to solve the problem.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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