Support load balancing in libpq

From: Jelte Fennema <Jelte(dot)Fennema(at)microsoft(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Support load balancing in libpq
Date: 2022-06-10 16:31:26
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Load balancing connections across multiple read replicas is a pretty
common way of scaling out read queries. There are two main ways of doing
so, both with their own advantages and disadvantages:
1. Load balancing at the client level
2. Load balancing by connecting to an intermediary load balancer

Option 1 has been supported by JDBC (Java) for 8 years and Npgsql (C#)
merged support about a year ago. This patch adds the same functionality
to libpq. The way it's implemented is the same as the implementation of
JDBC, and contains two levels of load balancing:
1. The given hosts are randomly shuffled, before resolving them
    one-by-one.
2. Once a host its addresses get resolved, those addresses are shuffled,
    before trying to connect to them one-by-one.

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0001-Support-load-balancing-in-libpq.patch application/octet-stream 17.4 KB

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