[pgpool-general: 5149] Re: Masterless pgpool-II

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> Hello!
> 
> After plenty of testing, I'm coming to you because I've been trying to set
> up pgpool-II using only two slaves that are using streaming replication,
> and no master behind the pgpool-II setup.  Is there any optimal (existing)
> way of doing this?  I'm trying to test out an application that could have
> significant load impact without pgpool, so I'm trying to test against a
> pool that won't cause issues with production.

It wouldn't work because Pgpool-II will send write queries to node 0
anyway and you will get something like:

test=# create table t1(i int);
ERROR:  cannot execute CREATE TABLE in a read-only transaction

Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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