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Mastering PostgreSQL 12 - Third Edition
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Mastering PostgreSQL 12 - Third Edition

by Hans-Jürgen Schönig
November 2019
Beginner to intermediate
470 pages
11h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Upgrading to synchronous replication

So far, asynchronous replication has been covered in reasonable detail. However, asynchronous replication means that a commit on the slave is allowed to happen after the commit on the master. If a master crashes, data that has not made it to the slave yet might be lost even if replication is occurring.

Synchronous replication is here to solve the problem—if PostgreSQL replicates synchronously, a commit has to be flushed to disk by at least one replica to go through on the master. Therefore, synchronous replication basically reduces the odds of data loss substantially.

In PostgreSQL, configuring synchronous replication is easy. Only two things have to be done:

  • Adjust the synchronous_standby_names setting ...
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