[pgpool-general: 6461] Re: Question regarding PG Pool high availability setup on Microsoft Azure

[Shereef Sakr]

Dears,

Just a kind reminder, if someone can help me in this regard.

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:42 PM Shereef Sakr <shereef.sakr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dears
>
> I'm having a problem regarding a high availability setup on
> Microsoft Azure since PG Pool high availability depends on the existence of
> Virtual IP, which simply doesn't work on Microsoft Azure and is not visible
> except on the same virtual machine.
>
> I found the example for Amazon AWS below, but I don't like the solution
> that it's a public IP visible to the internet, and we can't accept that for
> security reasons, also I didn't find a comparable example on Microsoft
> Azure too.
>
> https://www.pgpool.net/docs/latest/en/html/example-aws.html
>
> Also in addition to that I tried to disregard the virtual IP and configure
> my application using both internal IPs of both pg pool servers, but as per
> my observation I found the following:
>
> 1- Double the needed connections are opened to both backend application
> servers, which shouldn't be good to Postgres servers performance according
> to "PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook" ( that Postgres performance is
> acceptable when the number of open connection is ~ triple the number of
> cores)
> 2- Also I find that both pg pool servers behave as Active/Active and can
> be used at the same time.
>
> So what is the recommended solution in this case?
>
> --
> Shereef Sakr
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