Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tatsuo,
>
>
>>Yes. However it would be pretty easy to modify pgpool so that it could
>>cope with Slony-I. I.e.
>>
>>1) pgpool does the load balance and sends query to Slony-I's slave and
>>   master if the query is SELECT.
>>
>>2) pgpool sends query only to the master if the query is other than
>>   SELECT.

Don't you think that this is unsafe ?


SELECT foo(id), id
FROM bar;


where foo have side effect.

Is pgpool able to detect it and perform this select on the master ?


Regards
Gaetano Mendola