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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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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

Evaluating PgBouncer pool health

Though PgBouncer provides similar information regarding both server and client database connections, the status and health of each pool are also available. If we didn't already clarify, PgBouncer pools are separated by username, database name, and the server's hostname. Thus, each PostgreSQL server may have as many connection pools as there are different databases a user might access via PgBouncer.

PgBouncer supplies somewhat detailed information when seeking server or client status. However, these are not database views, so we can't summarize or aggregate the output to make it more usable. When running a highly available database server, we need to monitor aggregate values if possible to watch for potential patterns of misconfiguration or abuse.

Unfortunately, since PgBouncer acts as a proxy, we can't rely on the pg_stat_activity...

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