[pgpool-general: 3804] Re: Load balancing questions

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> How does load balancing interact with transactions?  We have a gui
> application that does inserts and updates followed immediately by a select
> to render the results... How do we ensure those selects always go to the
> master?

Assuming that you are using streaming replication mode, you can start
an explicit transaction and within the transaction you issue an
insert/update then issue a select to render the result. This way, the
select after the insert/update is always redirected to master.

Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
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