[pgpool-general: 1300] Re: pgpool stopped accepting client connections after 1 node hung

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at postgresql.org> wrote:
>>>>> I don't understand why pgpool stopped accepting client connections.
>>>>> I'd expect that if any single node goes down, pgpool should continue
>>>>> to work and accept connections, and simply mark the unresponsive node
>>>>> as unavailable.
>>>>
>>>> That is my question too. Do you see this kind of message in the pgpool log?
>>>>
>>>>                 degenerate_backend_set: 2 fail over request from pid xxxx
>>>>
>>>> If you see this, pgpool should initiate the failover and mark cuda-db5 down.
>>>
>>> Nope, that message was not present at any time.
>>
>> There was a bug report regarding pgpool-II 3.2 (or higher)'s
>> connect_inet_domain_socket():
>> http://www.pgpool.net/mantisbt/view.php?id=46
>>
>> In the report the error message was same as you
>> (connect_inet_domain_socket: connect() failed: Connection timed out).
>> and I have created a patch to fix it:
>> http://www.pgpool.net/mantisbt/file_download.php?file_id=55&type=bug
>>
>> Can you try it out? Still I am investigating why you did not see fail
>> over but I think you want to try the patch to avoid the error first.
>
> Oh, I think I see the reason why you do not see fail over.
> You have this:
> fail_over_on_backend_error = off
>
> In this case new_connection() does not trigger fail over.
>
>                         /* If fail_over_on_backend_error is true, do failover.
>                          * Otherwise, just exit this session.
>                          */
>                         if (pool_config->fail_over_on_backend_error)
>                         {
>                                 notice_backend_error(i);
>                         }
>                         child_exit(1);

Thanks.

Just so that I'm clear, your recommendation is that I set
fail_over_on_backend_error=on *AND* apply the patch you provided, and
that will allow pgpool to failover an unresponsive postgres server,
such that pgpool does not stop accepting client connections?