[pgpool-hackers: 943] Re: health check user, password, dbname configuration [FEATURE REQUEST]

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> Hello,
> 
> I am working on running pgpool on heroku. Has anyone tried this before?
> 
> What I am finding out is that I need to be able to configure the username,
> password, and database name per backend.
> 
> The following features are requested
> 
> 1) Ability to configure the database name that the health check connection
> connects to. Currently it can be toggled between "template1" and
> "postgres". Though in enviornments where we don't have control (e.g.,
> heroku) we need to be able to configure the database name.
> 
> 2) Ability to configure username, password, and database name per backend
> for the health check. In enviornments where we don't have control (e.g.,
> heroku) we need to be able to configure the database name.

These are definitely interesting requests. I'm looking forward to add
a knob to control them in pgpool-II 3.5 which is supposed to be
released this fall.

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