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gchamonlivetoday at 5:52 PM1 replyview on HN

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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doctorpanglosstoday at 6:28 PM

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.

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