pgpool-ha - Heartbeat scripts for pgpool

TANIDA Yutaka, TAKATSUKA Haruka (harukat@sraoss.co.jp)

1. What's this?

This is a scripts to combine both pgpool and heartbeat. Pgpool is a replication
 server of PostgreSQL and makes reliability , but pgpool server is always single-point-failure. To avoid this , heartbeat, it provides high-availability feature to applications, can be used.

2. Requirement

- heartbeat
 2.0+ required.

- pgpool
 Tested on pgpool-II only , but It will work if 'show pool_status' command
 was supported.

- PostgreSQL 7.0+
 'psql' also needed for install hosts . postmaster doesn't required.

- perl
 Need 5.0+ , GetOpt::Long. 

3. using

After install this , pgpool can be used as heartbeat OCF-style resources. See Heartbeat site.

http://linux-ha.org/ConfiguringHeartbeat
http://linux-ha.org/ClusterInformationBase/


