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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

Configuring PgBouncer safely

Once PgBouncer is installed, we need to configure it to honor our ideal pool size calculations. The settings included with the supplied configuration file are for demonstration purposes only and are unlikely to match our requirements. This situation is easy to rectify, but it requires a bit of research on our part.

Getting ready

The PgBouncer settings are explained in detail in the example configuration file. However, we suggest making full use of the service documentation while following this recipe. We will endeavor to explain important parameters, but there's more available than we cover here.

When we installed PgBouncer, we ensured the configuration directory was writable by the postgres system user, which is the same user that...

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