[pgpool-general: 4464] Re: Multiple pgpool on the same cluster

Tatsuo Ishii ishii at postgresql.org
Wed Feb 17 23:25:23 JST 2016


> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am planning to use pgpool only for load balancing, but I'd like to have more then one pgpool instance to reduce the load.
> Do I need a load balancer (for example HAProxy) to distribuite the requests across the pgpool instances? 

Yes.

BTW, I personally have no experience with HAProxy, one of my customers
told me that he had bad experience with HAProxy and that was one of
his reasons he decided to migrate to pgpool-II (single instance).

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp


More information about the pgpool-general mailing list