Re: Patch: Implement failover on libpq connect level.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 10/28/15 4:18 AM, Victor Wagner wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:25:57 -0400
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Also, this assumes that all the components other than host and port
>>> are the same.  Earlier there was a discussion about why the ports
>>> would ever need to be different.  Well, why can't the database names
>>> be different? I could have use for that.
>>
>> Because of way postgresql replication is implemented.
>
> There are multiple types of PostgreSQL replication, and there will be
> others in the future.

That's true, but doesn't allowing every parameter to be multiply
specified greatly increase the implementation complexity for a pretty
marginal benefit?  I think host and IP would hit 98% of the use cases
here.

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