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PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648138
Pages 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters close

Preface 1. Cluster Management Fundamentals 2. Cluster Management Techniques 3. Backup and Recovery 4. Advanced Replication Techniques 5. High Availability and Automatic Failover 6. Connection Pooling and Load Balancing 7. Securing through Authentication 8. Logging and Analyzing PostgreSQL Servers 9. Critical Services Monitoring 10. Extensions and Performance Tuning 11. Upgrades and Patches 12. About Packt 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Upgrading to PostgreSQL 13 using the pglogical extension

In the previous recipe, we saw how the pglogical extension can be installed to perform logical replication between two PostgreSQL servers. Streaming replication does not allow replication between two different Postgres major versions. For this reason, we can use logical replication to perform replication between two different PostgreSQL versions to perform a migration without huge downtime. As an example, we could configure logical replication between the PostgreSQL 9.6 and 12 versions using the pglogical extension. As long as all the tables have primary keys, this procedure should work. In this recipe, we shall discuss the steps involved in performing a logical replication between multiple PostgreSQL versions using the pglogical extension.

Getting ready

In order to proceed with this approach, we need to have the pglogical extension installed in both the old and the new version of the PostgreSQL servers. We can use pglogical to...

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