[pgpool-general: 5154] Re: My 3rd backend stay in unused state

Tatsuo Ishii ishii at sraoss.co.jp
Wed Dec 7 20:26:45 JST 2016


> Hello Tatsuo,
> 
> After reviewing one more time, I've seen that my third node missed the
> parallel_mode=1,

I don't think "parallel_mode" is a valid configuration parameter in
PostgreSQL 9.6.

> Now I can see it up and as secondary, but I can see that not all my nodes
> have load_balance_node to true, I don't know if this is normal ?

Yes, it's normal. It just says that your load balance node is 2 in
your session. Other session might see different node is true for
load_balance_node. The possibility of it is defined by lb_weight.

> # show pool_nodes;
>  node_id | hostname  | port | status | lb_weight |  role   | select_cnt |
> load_balance_node | replication_delay
> ---------+-----------+------+--------+-----------+---------+------------+-------------------+-------------------
>  0       | 10.0.0.58 | 5433 | up     | 0.333333  | primary | 0          |
> false             | 0
>  1       | 10.0.0.59 | 5433 | up     | 0.333333  | standby | 0          |
> false             | 0
>  2       | 10.0.0.36 | 5433 | up     | 0.333333  | standby | 0          |
> true              | 0
> 
> Thank you.
> Best regards,
> Mathieu
> 
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 6:43 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at sraoss.co.jp> wrote:
> 
>> It seems there's something wrong in you pgpool.conf (especially
>> in the backend.. section). Can you show us pgpool.conf?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --
>> Tatsuo Ishii
>> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
>> English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
>> Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to deploy a high availability setup with PostgreSQL 9.6 and
>> > PgPool 3.6.0.
>> > Everything was working fine up to the second host, I could get queries
>> load
>> > balanced (I use streaming replication)
>> >
>> > But then I wanted to add a 3rd backend to I can have more read load
>> > balancing (1 master streaming to 2 replicas), so I just took a snapshot
>> of
>> > the first replica and created another instance of it as second replica,
>> it
>> > can connect without problem to the master and start replicating.
>> >
>> > I duplicated the configuration I have in pgpool from the first replica to
>> > the second one, also added it to the list of the backends in
>> > trusted_servers.
>> >
>> > But then, since, I can't get it to leave the "unused" state :
>> >
>> > # show pool_nodes;
>> >  node_id | hostname  | port | status | lb_weight |  role   | select_cnt |
>> > load_balance_node | replication_delay
>> > ---------+-----------+------+--------+-----------+---------+
>> ------------+-------------------+-------------------
>> >  0       | 10.0.0.58 | 5432 | up     | 0.333333  | primary | 145        |
>> > false             | 0
>> >  1       | 10.0.0.59 | 5432 | up     | 0.333333  | standby | 11         |
>> > true              | 0
>> >  2       | 10.0.0.36 | 5432 | unused | 0.333333  | standby | 0          |
>> > false             | 0
>> >
>> > Here you can see my issue in node 2.
>> > When doing tcpdump or netstats, I can also see that there is not
>> > connections from the pgpool to the postgresql on port 5432, but I can
>> see a
>> > ping coming from the pgpool to this server, the others servers have
>> active
>> > connections :
>> >
>> > root at gc-lab-pgsql-1:~# netstat -anp | grep 10.0.0.57
>> > tcp        0      0 10.0.0.58:5432          10.0.0.57:41323
>> > ESTABLISHED 878/main: mathieu
>> > tcp        0      0 10.0.0.58:5432          10.0.0.57:39822
>> > ESTABLISHED 31799/main: mathieu
>> > tcp        0      0 10.0.0.58:5432          10.0.0.57:39864
>> > ESTABLISHED 31841/main: mathieu
>> >
>> > root at gc-lab-pgsql-2:~# netstat -anp | grep 10.0.0.57
>> > tcp        0      0 10.0.0.59:5432          10.0.0.57:42897
>> > ESTABLISHED 23707/main: mathieu
>> > tcp        0      0 10.0.0.59:5432          10.0.0.57:44398
>> > ESTABLISHED 25526/main: mathieu
>> > tcp        0      0 10.0.0.59:5432          10.0.0.57:42939
>> > ESTABLISHED 23748/main: mathieu
>> >
>> > root at gc-lab-pgsql-3:~# netstat -anp | grep 10.0.0.57
>> > <Nothing>
>> >
>> > Weird thing, I can see  the node 2 in the pool_pools
>> >
>> >
>> > # show pool_pools;
>> >  pool_pid |     start_time      | pool_id | backend_id | database |
>> > username |     create_time     | majorversion | minorversion |
>> pool_counter
>> > | pool_backendpid | pool_connected
>> > ----------+---------------------+---------+------------+----
>> ------+----------+---------------------+--------------+-----
>> ---------+--------------+-----------------+----------------
>> >  5307     | 2016-11-25 10:22:28 | 0       | 0          |
>> > |          |                     | 0            | 0            |
>> > 0            | 0               | 0
>> >  5307     | 2016-11-25 10:22:28 | 0       | 1          |
>> > |          |                     | 0            | 0            |
>> > 0            | 0               | 0
>> >  5307     | 2016-11-25 10:22:28 | 0       | 2          |
>> > |          |                     | 0            | 0            |
>> > 0            | 0               | 0
>> >  5307     | 2016-11-25 10:22:28 | 1       | 0          |
>> > |          |                     | 0            | 0            |
>> > 0            | 0               | 0
>> >  5307     | 2016-11-25 10:22:28 | 1       | 1          |
>> > |          |                     | 0            | 0            |
>> > 0            | 0               | 0
>> >  5307     | 2016-11-25 10:22:28 | 1       | 2          |
>> > |          |                     | 0            | 0            |
>> > 0            | 0               | 0
>> >  5307     | 2016-11-25 10:22:28 | 2       | 0          |
>> > |          |                     | 0            | 0            |
>> > 0            | 0               | 0
>> >
>> >
>> > I can't find why, node 1 and 2 have exactly the same configuration, and
>> in
>> > everything is the same in my pgpool configuration about those 2 nodes.
>> >
>> > I ran pgbench in both write and read on the pgpool, and connections to
>> node
>> > 2 are never used.
>> >
>> > How can I troubleshoot that ? I could not find anything interesting in
>> the
>> > logs.
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> > Mathieu
>>


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