Re: Postgres Automated Failover

From: "Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais" <ioguix(at)free(dot)fr>
To: AI Rumman <rummandba(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres Automated Failover
Date: 2019-01-17 14:06:44
Message-ID: 20190117150644.78fdf8fc@firost
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:32:48 -0500
AI Rumman <rummandba(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am planning to use Postgresql with TimescaleDb extension. I have to
> design a system similar to AWS RDS which supports automated failover,
> transparent minor version upgrades etc.
> In early days, I worked with PgPool II to enable heartbeat between the
> Postgres servers. Is there any new tool to achieve the same by which I can
> design a transparent failover system for Postgres?

There is multiple HA solutions, none are "transparent failover" though. They
are just automated-failover. A rollback-ed transaction because of failover will
never be transparent from the application point of view.

Look at Patroni or PAF, depending on what you want to achieve.

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