Re: [BDR] vs pgpool-II v3

Thank you everyone for your replies, the thoughts and context are greatly
appreciated!

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> On 13 August 2015 at 23:52, Wayne E. Seguin <wayneeseguin(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
> > The context of this is using BDR to implement a HA solution where we
> have
> > one node getting all connections at a time, if the node fails we move all
> > connections to another node. (eg. only one node gets all connections at
> any
> > given time).
>
> This sounds like a job better suited to a normal active/standby
> configuration with regular built-in streaming replication. Use a tool
> like repmgr to manage failover and a proxy like pgbouncer to redirect
> traffic.
>
> There's no reason to use async multi-master replication when simple
> single-master replication will do just as well.
>
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