Re: Pgpool questions

Ok, I have added per query basis weight control to my TODO list.
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> Is it on your todo list to something like this...? It is the opposite
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> Make a "/* SLAVE */" type comment to force it to a slave? It would be
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> "Set weight_secondary to 0."
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> Did you mean Set weight_master to 0. Unfortunately this would not help
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tatsuo Ishii [mailto:t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp]
> Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 7:23 PM
> To: Brian Maguire
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Pgpool questions
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> > I have a couple Pgpool questions regarding running pgpool as a load
> balancer with Sony as the replicator.
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> > Is there anyway to load balance selects to more than 2 servers? ex. 1
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> It's on my TODO but will not be a trivial change.
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> > Is there any way to tell a select (ex. with a function) to go only the
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> Pgpool will send any query not starting with "SELECT" or "select" to
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> the master. So you can insert a white space or a comment, for example
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> "/* NO LOAD BALANCE */" at the beginning of the line to prevent the
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> > Is there any way to tell a select query to only go to the slave?
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> Set weight_secondary to 0.
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