On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:13:26 +0100 Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantz...@cloud.gatewaynet.com> wrote: … > Have you consider pgpool-ii ? I know most support / service companies > push for patroni, and manually separating read / write traffic from > within the app,
Indeed > but I still find pgpool's query routing very nice. Using Pgpool for HA is a no go in my opinion. Pgpool HA requires the DBA/sysadmin to deal alone with the real high availability challenges. Pgpool doesn't handle the HA complexity itself, it stays quite "naive". It requires the sysadmin/DBA to mess with the complexity to keep the cluster safe from corruption. In other word, implement the HA safety stack in bash yourself. This is partly true for repmgr as well last time I checked. Don't implement Patroni or Pacemaker yourself in a collection of "action scripts" triggered by a naive HA stack. Some people tried, some clusters has been corrupted. Pgpool for routing and/or pooling is an acceptable solution. Of course, it comes with its drawbacks and some inefficiences, that's why most support/service companies avoid it when possible. But depending on the context, it could be OK. Regards,
