Re: Libpq support to connect to standby server as priority

From: Dave Cramer [mailto:pg@fastcrypt.com]
>       >> 2) If there's no node on which pg_is_in_recovery() returns false,
> then
>       >>    we need to retry until we find it. To not retry forever, there
>       >>    should be a timeout counter parameter.

> Checking the code I see we actually use show transaction_read_only.

Also, does PgJDBC really repeat connection attempts for a user-specified duration?  Having a quick look at the code, it seemed to try each host once in a while loop.