Re: Assembling "top features" list for beta announcement

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Peter Eisentraut <
peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> On 4/10/17 14:10, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > On 04/10/2017 09:04 AM, Justin Clift wrote:
> >> On 10 Apr 2017, at 16:42, Peter Eisentraut <
> peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> >>> On 4/8/17 04:50, Michael Banck wrote:
> >>>> "Client-Side Connection-Failover"
> >>>
> >>> I don't think the libpq feature can be considered "failover". It just
> >>> picks from a list of end points on the initial connection attempt. It
> >>> does not discover connection failures and reconnect.
> >>
> >> Yeah, after reading Roberts blog post, I'd also agree that "failover"
> >> is a bad/misleading (in the "automatic" sense) description for it.
> >
> > Alternate phrasing?
> >
> > I do want to get this in the "extended list" of features, just because
> > we want driver authors to add support for it.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this. If the driver is based on libpq,
> they get it for free. If the driver is not based on libpq, they have to
> implement it themselves, but don't need to wait for libpq before doing so.
>

And libpq already copied the idea from jdbc, did it not? So at least one
non-libpq driver already has it.

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