<div dir="ltr">After more research I suppose I'll have to just try and use PAM instead of LDAP - that way both PGPool and PostgreSQL can use the same interface.<div><br></div><div>I'm still interested in why this is the case though?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div style="color:#b8276a;font:bold 14px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:27 PM, James Sewell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.sewell@lisasoft.com" target="_blank">james.sewell@lisasoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">So looking at the code it seems like this might not be possible, the criteria for throwing this error is:<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">if (frontend->auth_method != uaMD5 </font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> && !RAW_MODE </font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> && NUM_BACKENDS > 1)</font></div></div></blockquote><div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">But this confuses me - why couldn't direct auth be used in master/slave mode with no connection pooling?</span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Cheers, </span></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br clear="all"><div><div><div style="color:#b8276a;font:bold 14px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<br></span><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:56 AM, James Sewell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.sewell@lisasoft.com" target="_blank">james.sewell@lisasoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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><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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