On 2015.08.19 at 15:35:17 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > > I think we do need some way of saying that a readonly connection is OK. So
I had such thing in my propsal (boolean parameter readonly). But haven't yet checked if it is compatible with jdbc syntax. > the default would be to connect to each in turn until we find the master. > It should keep retrying for a period of time since for a short period it is > possible there is no master. If you specify readonly, then a connection to It is very important addition - to specify that if no host is able to establish read-write session, we should retry and give a chance for sever administration to promote one of standbys to master. Probably there should be additional timeout parameter (we have connection_timeout, and this would be failover_timeout) with some reasonaable default. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
