Hi,
I'm working on configuring high availability for pgpool using watchdog. Initially, I tried with two pgpool nodes (along with a pgmaster and pgslave). In this scenario, assuming pgpool node 1 was started first and became the leader. After sometime , the node got disconnected with pgpool node 2 and pgpool node 2 as well declared itself as leader.
To handle this kind of scenario, I tried provisioning an additional pgpool node and made a cluster with total 5 nodes (3 pgpool nodes, 1 pgmaster and 1 pgslave), assuming it will create a quorum to handle such situations. Unfortunately, the situation still remains the same. (In case of any disconnection between node that became leader and the first stand by node, both the nodes try to manage the pgmaster and slave simultaneously).
Please help me understand if this is expected behavior or some additional configurations are required to be made, so that two pgpool nodes don't become leader simultaneously. If it's an expected behavior, how can we handle this ?
(A point to note is that I'm not using elastic IP address here, instead I have created a network load balancer in AWS, created a target group with all the three pgpool nodes as targets).
Regards,
Venkatesh.