Re: Adding read-only consumers to a Mirror Mode Replication setup?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@symas.com>]

--On Wednesday, October 17, 2018 5:52 PM -0400 Jean-Francois Malouin 
<Jean-Francois.Malouin@bic.mni.mcgill.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible, or even sane to consider adding read-only consumers to a
> MMR setup? If so, any recommendations, pitfalls or gotchas? Or should I
> simply re-start from scratch -- I'm still not in production.

I've had setups with 2-node MMR on the front, and read only consumers.  It 
works just fine, as long as any given consumer only points to one master. 
Theoretically, it's supposed to work so that consumers can point to more 
than one master in an MMR setup, but my experience didn't match that 
(<http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/?findid=8373>).

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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