On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Shulgin, Oleksandr > <oleksandr.shul...@zalando.de> wrote: >> I believe that having a floating IP for the master is much more practical >> approach and it doesn't require any patch to libpq or modification of the >> client connection settings. > > I think that's a great approach if all the machines are on the same > subnet. If they are in different datacenters, it doesn't work. > > The amount of opposition to this feature is remarkable considering > that it's available in Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, and > MySQL. See for example: > > http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/connection-string/ > https://datastax.github.io/python-driver/getting_started.html > > This is a small patch with minimal to no downside implementing a > feature that is present in most or all of the major competing > products. We're really doing ourselves a disservice if we reject it. > I think it would be far better to progress to talking about what > design we'd be comfortable with, rather than kidding ourselves that a > feature that everyone else has and which somebody has taken the time > to implement (thus, obviously it has value for them) and which has > been discussed to general approval at PGCon developer meetings and > which has been endorsed on this thread by three committers is somehow > something that nobody really needs. Seriously?
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