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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

Combining and ordering related actions

There are two final pieces of the puzzle that will produce a fully functional Pacemaker cluster. At this point, we have three independent base-level entries in Pacemaker: DRBD, the PGServer group, and the email alert. They are independent because Pacemaker may start or stop them on any server in the list of active nodes.

We can fix this by defining a colocation between related resources. When we create a colocation, we are effectively stating that wherever this service goes, this other service should follow. Of course, this by itself is not sufficient. We also need to declare the expected order necessary for the services to start.

In this recipe, we'll finish our Pacemaker setup by creating necessary colocation entries, and define a service start order.

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