It sounds like you want your application (Dovecot) to gracefully failover.
Take a look at
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/02/12/reconnecting-your-app-after-a-postgres-failover/.
Perhaps that's what you're looking for, namely, the section on
"Multi-Hosts Connection Strings, thanks to libpq"
Someone else on the list could go into the details on this.
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On Sunday, February 19th, 2023 at 10:01 AM, Paul Kudla <paul at scom.ca>
wrote:
> I am aware that there are provising for redundant database connections
>
> Basically i was working on my main db server (which is also a mail sever)
>
> I current have this in the dovecot-pgsql.conf
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> driver = pgsql
> connect = host=localhost port=5433 dbname=scom_billing user=pgsql
> password=xxxxxxxxx
> default_pass_scheme = PLAIN
>
> password_query = SELECT username as user, password FROM email_users
> WHERE username = '%u' and password <> 'alias' and
status = True and
>
> destination = '%u'
>
> user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM email_users WHERE username >
'%u' and password <> 'alias' and status = True and
destination = '%u'
>
>
> #iterate_query = SELECT user, password FROM email_users WHERE username >
'%u' and password <> 'alias' and status = True and
destination = '%u'
>
>
> iterate_query = SELECT "username" as user, domain FROM
email_users WHERE
> status = True and alias_flag = False
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
> Basically I have replicaed servers all over the place but mail18
> (because dovecot only knows of one db instance) went down as well.
>
> May I please get some guidance on what to add to talk to another
> postgresql server (i have 6 replicated servers so would probably want a
> couple worst case issue)
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Happy Sunday !!!
> Thanks - paul
>
> Paul Kudla
>
>
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>
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