[pgpool-general: 9149] no load balancing via a foreign table

[Sbob]

All;


I created a db node with 2 standby's

then I setup pgpool and set it up with hosts talking to the 3 backend 
nodes above

then I created a stand alone db cluster, and setup a foreign server 
pointing to the pgpool node, then I used the IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA to 
import the tables via the pgpool node.

all this worked great


however no matter how many selects I run via the foreign tables a "show 
pool_nodes" on the pgpool server shows  a select_cnt of 0 for all 3 
nodes, meaning the select_cnt for all the backend nodes are not getting 
set for queries via the foreign tables

If I connect to the pgpool server/cluster and run a number of select 
statements then a "show pool_nodes"  shows increasing values for all 3 
backend nodes for select_cnt


I set log_min_duration_statement = 0 on all 3 backend servers and re-ran 
multiple selects via the foreign tables, I see logging on the master / 
primary but no queries logged for the standby's


It seems that pgpool is not load balancing queries that come from the 
foreign tables


Any thoughts how to get load balancing to work via a foreign table?


Thanks in advance