Re: load balancer and connection pooling combined

From: Victor Sudakov <vas(at)sibptus(dot)ru>
To: pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: load balancer and connection pooling combined
Date: 2021-03-03 10:34:27
Message-ID: YD9mM7+LGQcMR2Vj@admin.sibptus.ru
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Victor Sudakov wrote:
>
> Based on your personal experience and industry best practices, what load
> balancer combined with connection pooler can you advise?
>
> 1. I have good experience with pgpool, it's a great and robust
> connection pooler, but it cannot do load balancing and failover (or
> rather, it can do very rudimentary load balancing).
>
> 2. I have limited experience with Haproxy, it's great for load balancing
> and failover, but it's not a connection pooler, and its pgsql-check is
> not good enough, I guess you have to use an external check.
>
> Is there the "one thing to rule them all" that does all of the above and
> is well-tested and reliable?

If it could parse Patroni's REST API like Haproxy can, it would be even more perfect.

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Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE
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