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PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from  PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125537
Pages 536 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Shaun Thomas Shaun Thomas
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters close

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.Packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Hardware Planning 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

Introduction


Thus far in this book, we've discussed quite an array of functionality and methodology dedicated to keeping PostgreSQL systems online. By now, we have a burgeoning menagerie of replication utilities, system monitoring tools, connection pooling layers, and even a handful of troubleshooting tips.

Then we moved on to combining several of these techniques and a few others to create a software stack that automates and protects a PostgreSQL cluster. Yet despite the power demonstrated in the Chapter 8, Simple Stack, we're still reliant primarily on PostgreSQL replication to safeguard replicated data. If we have an extremely high transaction throughput, even PostgreSQL replication is too slow to fully resist data-loss in the event of a server outage.

What tools can we use to safeguard our critical data beyond the guarantees granted by PostgreSQL? Where do we go next?

As it turns out, simply installing PostgreSQL on a server can be done too early. Presuming that we have all of the hardware...

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