<div dir="ltr">Hello All,<div><br></div><div>Is this possible?</div><div><br></div><div>I would like:</div><div><ol><li>Authentication to be pushed back to Postgres (I use LDAP, so I can't use pool_passwd)</li><li>SQL Load balancing across two Postgres servers</li></ol><div>I'm happy to lose connection pooling as a consequence of this - but I still can't seem to get this to work at all.</div></div><div><br></div><div>As soon as I enable the second node I get:</div><div><br></div><div><div>2015-09-03 11:47:31 ERROR: pid 8147: pool_get_passwd: username is NULL</div><div>psql.bin: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "james"</div></div><div><br></div><div>I have:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">connection_cache = false<br></font></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">load_balance_mode = true</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">master_slave_mode = false # I have tried this with true and false</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">master_slave_sub_mode = 'stream'</font></div></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">backend_hostname0 = '192.168.3.190'</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">backend_port0 = 5432</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">backend_weight0 = 1</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">backend_data_directory0 = '/pg/9.4/data/pg_data'</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">backend_flag0 = ALLOW_TO_FAILOVER</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">backend_hostname1 = '192.168.3.191'</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">backend_port1 = 5432</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">backend_weight1 = 1</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">backend_data_directory1 = '/pg/9.4/data/pg_data'</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">backend_flag1 = ALLOW_TO_FAILOVER</font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div style="color:rgb(184,39,106);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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