The Connection Manager provides the following features:
Detects kernel panics between the server running the client and the server running the PostgreSQL instance(hereinafter referred to as instance), physical server failures, and inter-server network link downs, and notifies the client or instance. The client is notified as an error event through the SQL connection, and the instance will be notified in the form of a force collection of SQL connections with clients that are out of service.
Transparent connection support feature
When an application wants to connect to an instance of an attribute in a set of instances configured for replication, it can connect to that instance without being aware of which server it is running on.
Information
The available client drivers for Connection Manager are libpq (C language library), ECPG (embedded SQL in C), ECOBPG (embedded SQL in COBOL), JDBC driver, ODBC driver and Python language package (psycopg).
Each function is described below.