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PostgreSQL 12 High Availability Cookbook - Third Edition
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PostgreSQL 12 High Availability Cookbook - Third Edition

by Shaun Thomas
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
734 pages
38h 13m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

For this recipe, we have two PostgreSQL nodes: pg1 and pg2, which are assigned IP addresses of 10.0.30.101 and 10.0.30.102. Follow these steps as a root-capable user:

  1. On pg1, run this command to generate an authorization key file:
corosync-keygen
  1. If this doesn't return quickly, open another connection to pg1 and perform several activities to generate sufficient entropy until corosync-keygen completes. A good source of random events is software compilation, for example.
  2. Copy the resulting /etc/corosync/authkey file to pg2.
  3. Ensure the totem section of corosync.conf in /etc/corosync on both pg1 and pg2 resembles the following:
totem { version: 2 cluster_name: pgha crypto_cipher: aes256 crypto_hash: sha256 transport: knet ...
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ISBN: 9781838984854