In Vertica 7.0 theres support for in-database load balancing of queries (https://my.vertica.com/docs/7.0.x/HTML/Content/Authoring/AdministratorsGuide/LoadBalancing/AboutNativeConnectionLoadBalancing.htm) in a clustered setup. There seems to be a bunch of additional logic built in to the odbc/jdbc/ado drivers related to actually making the connection to the right machine, but at the core it seems to be a new connection option that results in the server communicating back with what server in the cluster that should be utilized for the next query. Is there any way that this could be supported in this library? I'd be willing to help out in any way I can, but I'm not really sure how I would get started on building that support in. Any pointers on how to map stuff that the ODBC/JDBC drivers are doing with Vertica, to actions I could take over the socket connection?