I'm using postgres 9.4.9, pgpool 3.5.4 on centos 6.8.
I'm having a major hard time getting pgpool to automatically detect when nodes are up (it often detects the first node but rarely detects the secondary) but if I use pcp_attach_node to tell it what nodes are up, then everything is hunky dory.
So I figured until I could properly sort the issue out, I would write a little script to check the status of the nodes and attach them as appropriate, but I'm having trouble with the password prompt. According to the documentation, I should be able to issue commands like
pcp_attach_node 10 localhost 9898 pgpool mypass 1
but that just complains
pcp_attach_node: Warning: extra command-line argument "localhost" ignored pcp_attach_node: Warning: extra command-line argument "9898" ignored pcp_attach_node: Warning: extra command-line argument "pgpool" ignored pcp_attach_node: Warning: extra command-line argument "mypass" ignored pcp_attach_node: Warning: extra command-line argument "1" ignored
it'll only work when I use parameters like
pcp_attach_node -U pgpool -h localhost -p 9898 -n 1
and there's no parameter for the password, I have to manually enter it at the prompt.
Any suggestions for sorting this other than using Expect?
You have to create PCPPASSFILE. Search pgpool documentation for more info.
Example 1:
create PCPPASSFILE for logged user (vi ~/.pcppass), file content is 127.0.0.1:9897:user:pass (hostname:port:username:password), set file permissions 0600 (chmod 0600 ~/.pcppass)
command should run without asking for password
pcp_attach_node -h 127.0.0.1 -U user -p 9897 -w -n 1
Example 2:
create PCPPASSFILE (vi /usr/local/etc/.pcppass), file content is 127.0.0.1:9897:user:pass (hostname:port:username:password), set file permissions 0600 (chmod 0600 /usr/local/etc/.pcppass), set variable PCPPASSFILE (export PCPPASSFILE=/usr/local/etc/.pcppass)
command should run without asking for password
pcp_attach_node -h 127.0.0.1 -U user -p 9897 -w -n 1
Script for auto attach the node
You can schedule this script with for example crontab.
#!/bin/bash #pgpool status #0 - This state is only used during the initialization. PCP will never display it. #1 - Node is up. No connections yet. #2 - Node is up. Connections are pooled. #3 - Node is down. source $HOME/.bash_profile export PCPPASSFILE=/appl/scripts/.pcppass STATUS_0=$(/usr/local/bin/pcp_node_info -h 127.0.0.1 -U postgres -p 9897 -n 0 -w | cut -d " " -f 3) echo $(date +%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S.%3N)" [INFO] NODE 0 status "$STATUS_0; if (( $STATUS_0 == 3 )) then echo $(date +%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S.%3N)" [WARN] NODE 0 is down - attaching node" TMP=$(/usr/local/bin/pcp_attach_node -h 127.0.0.1 -U postgres -p 9897 -n 0 -w -v) echo $(date +%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S.%3N)" [INFO] "$TMP fi STATUS_1=$(/usr/local/bin/pcp_node_info -h 127.0.0.1 -U postgres -p 9897 -n 1 -w | cut -d " " -f 3) echo $(date +%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S.%3N)" [INFO] NODE 1 status "$STATUS_1; if (( $STATUS_1 == 3 )) then echo $(date +%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S.%3N)" [WARN] NODE 1 is down - attaching node" TMP=$(/usr/local/bin/pcp_attach_node -h 127.0.0.1 -U postgres -p 9897 -n 1 -w -v) echo $(date +%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S.%3N)" [INFO] "$TMP fi exit 0
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