[pgpool-general: 5122] Re: PGPool failover backend communication error clarification

[Alfonso Subiotto Marqués]

Unless I am mistaken, it seems to me that during health checks, if an
ErrorResponse is returned by the server, a health check would fail.

I'm confused as to why this server behavior constitutes a backend
communication error during health checks but not when a client wants to
establish a connection to a server.

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 6:39 PM Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at sraoss.co.jp> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a question regarding the fail_over_on_backend_error option,
> specifically what exactly constitutes a backend communication error.
> Consider a client connecting to a server through pgpool. If for some
reason
> a SQL error is returned by the server before a SQL connection is
> established (e.g. an ErrorResponse during start-up, see
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/protocol-flow.html) would
> this constitute a backend communication error and mark the server as down?

No.

> I assume that this would be the case during normal health check
procedures.

health check procedures are not affected by fail_over_on_backend_error.
What's your concern with health check procedures?

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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