| ▲ | doctorpangloss 3 hours ago |
| Is a load balancer HA? |
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| ▲ | gchamonlive 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not by itself if it's naive, but if it's able to assess target health and avoid degraded instances then it becomes a component in HA, the other being integrating an orchestrator for gracious recovery. |
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| ▲ | doctorpangloss 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | from their docs: > PgDog does not detect primary failure and will not call pg_promote(). It is expected that the databases are managed externally by another tool, like Patroni or AWS RDS, which handle replica promotion. | | |
| ▲ | nikolatt an hour ago | parent [-] | | Why the snark comment? The PgDog project has been around for a while, it's not vibe coded. | | |
| ▲ | doctorpangloss 41 minutes ago | parent [-] | | okay, it does appear that the LLM didn't write any of this. i guess the simple answer is that it is not HA. |
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| ▲ | dev-ns8 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Combined with a replication strategy and automated health checks, a load balancer could direct traffic to a healthy instance automatically. |
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| ▲ | dotancohen an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What happens when the load balancer fails? |
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| ▲ | inigyou 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | HA has to be all the way through, in which case you might not need a load balancer because each client already connects to a separate server. If you do, then you can have one load balancer per client machine. |
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