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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 it works...

This recipe is essentially a mild reconfiguration of both HAProxy and PgBouncer. We start by reconfiguring HAProxy to bind to port 5433 rather than our earlier recommendation of 5432. We do this because HAProxy isn't going to be the only component between the application and the PostgreSQL nodes.

Next, we have to slightly modify two sections of the pgbouncer.ini file in order to work with HAProxy. Rather than configuring which backend PgBouncer connects to, we simply connect to the HAProxy node itself. This can either be the local server or the hostname of the proxy server; either way, PgBouncer should no longer directly contact any PostgreSQL nodes.

The connection target should always be handled by HAProxy since it can automatically ...

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ISBN: 9781838984854