Re: Connection pooler / LDAP auth / Load Balancing on read-only queries

On 7/3/24 23:32, Holger Jakobs wrote:
> Am 03.07.24 um 22:25 schrieb Achilleas Mantzios:
>> Dear Members
>>
>> I am searching (like many others) of the holy grail of PostgreSQL 
>> pooling + Load Balancing . Ideally I would like :
>>
>> - A pgbouncer with better/native LDAP (not PAM) / and eventually 
>> Kerberos support
>>
>> - A pgbouncer enhanced with load balancing read-only queries (like 
>> pgpool)
>>
>> or
>>
>> - A pgpool-II with better resources utilization / more efficient 
>> pooling (like pgbouncer)
>>
>>
>> There are other solutions available pgcat (no LDAP), odyssey (no load 
>> balancing) , pgagroal, supavisor, none of which seem to cover the above.
>>
>> Some ppl advice , keeping pgbouncer close to the app(s) and pgpool 
>> close to the DB. But kinda had mixed feelings putting the two work 
>> together.
>>
>> I'd like to ask if there any thoughts or even hopes that some of the 
>> above will be available in a single software, or otherwise how do 
>> people tackle this.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>
> Have a look at pgCat, a newcomer which might meet your needs.

Hello,

I already mentioned pgCat, and the reason it won't cut it. (no PAM, no 
LDAP, only MD5/SCRAM-SHA-256)

>
> Cheers
>
> Holger
>