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PostgreSQL 12 High Availability Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Shaun Thomas
Book Image

PostgreSQL 12 High Availability Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Shaun Thomas

Overview of this book

Databases are nothing without the data they store. In the event of an outage or technical catastrophe, immediate recovery is essential. This updated edition ensures that you will learn the important concepts related to node architecture design, as well as techniques such as using repmgr for failover automation. From cluster layout and hardware selection to software stacks and horizontal scalability, this PostgreSQL cookbook will help you build a PostgreSQL cluster that will survive crashes, resist data corruption, and grow smoothly with customer demand. You’ll start by understanding how to plan a PostgreSQL database architecture that is resistant to outages and scalable, as it is the scaffolding on which everything rests. With the bedrock established, you'll cover the topics that PostgreSQL database administrators need to know to manage a highly available cluster. This includes configuration, troubleshooting, monitoring and alerting, backups through proxies, failover automation, and other considerations that are essential for a healthy PostgreSQL cluster. Later, you’ll learn to use multi-master replication to maximize server availability. Later chapters will guide you through managing major version upgrades without downtime. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to build an efficient and adaptive PostgreSQL 12 database cluster.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Changing PgBouncer connections while online

One potentially problematic aspect of PgBouncer is that each database mapping may only have one endpoint. That is, for each named server we add to its configuration, it can only represent a single PostgreSQL node.

That may seem like a strange concern on our part, but consider circumstances of advanced clusters with multiple Primary nodes. This is a completely valid configuration now that logical replication makes it possible to have two-way replication. Normally, when we reconfigure PgBouncer to send connections to a new database server, this change is absolute.

However, advances in PgBouncer versions after 1.9 make it possible to retain connections to the old PostgreSQL server, yet send new traffic to our new target. This allows for smooth transitions between servers, since transactions are allowed to complete rather than face an interruption...