Getting ready
BDR is currently the only method of getting applying the multi-master approach to PostgreSQL, and it is only available as a proprietary extension to PostgreSQL 10 and 11. This may change in the future, but for now, this means that BDR will act as our demonstration platform for the multi-master approach. It will be necessary to obtain BDR directly from its vendor, 2ndQuadrant.
The BDR product page is available at https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/postgres-bdr-2ndquadrant/.
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While 2ndQuadrant supports a cloud-based option, Docker images and Debian- or Red-Hat-based packages obtained from their private ...
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