MagicStack / MagicStack/asyncpg

Pool connect ignores DNS ttl

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Description

* **asyncpg version**: 0.14
* **PostgreSQL version**: 9.5/9.6
* **Do you use a PostgreSQL SaaS? If so, which? Can you reproduce
the issue with a local PostgreSQL install?**: Using AWS RDS
* **Python version**: 3.6
* **Platform**: Linux in docker
* **Do you use pgbouncer?**: Not in this instances
* **Did you install asyncpg with pip?**: yes
* **If you built asyncpg locally, which version of Cython did you use?**:
* **Can the issue be reproduced under both asyncio and
[uvloop](https://github.com/magicstack/uvloop)?**: We only use asyncio

After performing a failover/reboot of an AWS RDS instance asyncpg does not appear to reconnect gracefully - it looks like the code in `Pool` caches the IP of the PG instance after dns resolution and does not respect whatever TTL we might have set on the cname that points at our master: https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/blob/master/asyncpg/pool.py#L133

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Start in asyncpg/pool.py around line 133 and trace how Pool resolves and reuses the PostgreSQL host. Check the reported AWS RDS failover scenario and how DNS changes are handled under asyncio. Done means the pool reconnects to the updated address after failover instead of retaining the old resolved IP, with regression coverage for the behavior.

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Tech stack
postgresql, python
Domain
backend, databases
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
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Newbie friendliness
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