The load-balancing mode in pgpool presumably distributes connections according to server weight. Then, master/slave mode defines which servers are read-only as opposed to writable.
But can we depend on this behavior? We should at least verify these claims before using such a configuration in a production environment. Our uptime depends upon it.
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