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PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook

You're reading from   PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook Managing a reliable PostgreSQL database

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125537
Length 536 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Shaun Thomas Shaun Thomas
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hardware Planning FREE CHAPTER 2. Handling and Avoiding Downtime 3. Pooling Resources 4. Troubleshooting 5. Monitoring 6. Replication 7. Replication Management Tools 8. Simple Stack 9. Advanced Stack 10. Cluster Control 11. Data Distribution

Upgrading while staying online

We've all encountered this scenario. PostgreSQL recently released version 9.6.1 and we need to upgrade to protect ourselves from potential data corruption. Or perhaps it isn't PostgreSQL that requires an upgrade, but the system kernel or another critical element of the operating system.

Regardless of the reason, we must accommodate the procedure somehow. Upgrading software while remaining online is the ultimate aspiration of maintaining a high availability stack. Let's see how we can reach that goal by leveraging Patroni's functionality.

Getting ready

This recipe depends on the presence of the entire stack. Please complete all recipes up to Installing and configuring HAProxy before continuing.

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