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PostgreSQL 9 High Availability Cookbook

By : Shaun Thomas
Book Image

PostgreSQL 9 High Availability Cookbook

By: Shaun Thomas

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
PostgreSQL 9 High Availability Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Hardware Planning

In this chapter, we will learn about selection and provisioning of hardware necessary to build a highly available PostgreSQL database. We will cover the following recipes in this chapter:

  • Planning for redundancy

  • Having enough IOPS

  • Sizing storage

  • Investing in a RAID

  • Picking a processor

  • Making the most of memory

  • Exploring nimble networking

  • Managing motherboards

  • Selecting a chassis

  • Saddling up to a SAN

  • Tallying up

  • Protecting your eggs