Re: Automatic Client Failover

Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > Implementation would be to make PQreset() try secondary connection if
> > > the primary one fails to reset. Of course you can program this manually,
> > > but the feature is that you wouldn't need to, nor would you need to
> > > request changes to 27 different interfaces either.
> > 
> > I assumed share/pg_service.conf would help in this regard;  place the
> > file on a central server and modify that so everyone connects to another
> > server. Perhaps we could even add round-robin functionality to that.
> 
> I do want to keep it as simple as possible, but we do need a way that
> will work without reconfiguration at the time of danger. It needs to be
> preconfigured and tested, then change controlled so we all know it
> works.

OK, so using share/pg_service.conf as an implementation example, how
would this work?  The application supplies multiple service names and
libpq tries attaching to each one in the list until one works?

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