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<h1>What is Watchdog</h1>
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	"watchdog" is a sub process of pgpool-II aiming for adding high availability feature to it.
	Features added by watchdog include:

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	<li>Life checking of pgpool service</li>
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	watchdog monitors responses of pgpool <i>ser