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PostgreSQL 12 High Availability Cookbook

You're reading from   PostgreSQL 12 High Availability Cookbook Over 100 recipes to design a highly available server with the advanced features of PostgreSQL 12

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838984854
Length 734 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Shaun Thomas Shaun Thomas
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Architectural Considerations 2. Hardware Planning FREE CHAPTER 3. Minimizing Downtime 4. Proxy and Pooling Resources 5. Troubleshooting 6. Monitoring 7. PostgreSQL Replication 8. Backup Management 9. High Availability with repmgr 10. High Availability with Patroni 11. Low-Level Server Mirroring 12. High Availability via Pacemaker 13. High Availability with Multi-Master Replication 14. Data Distribution 15. Zero-downtime Upgrades 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Improving failover speed

Once we've completed a multi-master failover stack, there's really only one task remaining to prove that it does as we claim. We need to both test the failover process and also modify one or two settings to get it as low as possible, while also doing so safely and avoiding disruptive flapping between nodes.

This recipe will explain what tests we can perform on our cluster to do this and which settings we can modify to wring as much failover performance out of a multi-master environment as possible.

Getting ready

This recipe requires the full BDR, HAProxy, and PgBouncer stack. Please follow all recipes necessary for completing the Combining PgBouncer with HAProxy recipe before continuing.

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