Clusterware may provide additional features, such as automated failover, monitoring, or ease of management of replication:
The repmgr utility is designed to manage PostgreSQL replication and failover. This is discussed in more detail in the Using repmgr recipe.
The pgpool library is designed to allow session pooling and routing of requests to standby nodes.
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