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

the read only detection is tricky--consider transaction level pooling, and the first query is read only

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Scott Ribe
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> On Jul 3, 2024, at 2:25 PM, Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> wrote:
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> Dear Members
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> I am searching (like many others) of the holy grail of PostgreSQL pooling + Load Balancing . Ideally I would like :
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> - A pgbouncer with better/native LDAP (not PAM) / and eventually Kerberos support
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> - A pgbouncer enhanced with load balancing read-only queries (like pgpool)
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> or
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> - A pgpool-II with better resources utilization / more efficient pooling (like pgbouncer)
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> There are other solutions available pgcat (no LDAP), odyssey (no load balancing) , pgagroal, supavisor, none of which
seemto cover the above. 
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> Some ppl advice , keeping pgbouncer close to the app(s) and pgpool close to the DB. But kinda had mixed feelings
puttingthe two work together. 
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> 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
otherwisehow do people tackle this. 
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> Thank you
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> Achilleas Mantzios
> IT DEV - HEAD
> IT DEPT
> Dynacom Tankers Mgmt (as agents only)
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