PostgreSQL 12 High Availability Cookbook

Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to understanding key techniques for architecture and hardware planning, monitoring, replication, backups, and decoupling Key FeaturesNewly updated edition, covering the latest PostgreSQL 12 features with hands-on industry-driven recipesCreate a PostgreSQL cluster that stays online even when disaster strikesLearn how to avoid costly downtime and data loss that can ruin your businessBook Description 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. What you will learnUnderstand how to protect data with PostgreSQL replication toolsFocus on hardware planning to ensure that your database runs efficientlyReduce database resource contention with connection poolingMonitor and visualize cluster activity with Nagios and the TIG (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana) stack Construct a robust software stack that can detect and avert outagesUse multi-master to achieve an enduring PostgreSQL clusterWho this book is for This book is for Postgres administrators and developers who are looking to build and maintain a highly reliable PostgreSQL cluster. Although knowledge of the new features of PostgreSQL 12 is not required, a basic understanding of PostgreSQL administration is expected.