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PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook - Second Edition
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PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook - Second Edition

by Shaun Thomas
February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
28h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Bulletproofing with synchronous replication

Sometimes, in order to provide acceptable data durability, a high availability configuration must utilize synchronous commits. Beginning with PostgreSQL 9.1, database servers can now refuse to commit a transaction until the data is located on at least one alternate server. Unlike asynchronous replication where this is optional, synchronous replicas enforce this requirement to a fault.

Discussions in the PostgreSQL mailing list suggest that there is a long-standing misconception that synchronous replication is similar to RAID-1 operation. In RAID-1, the same exact data exists on two disks (or two disk sets), and if one of the pair fails, it continues to operate in degraded mode until the problem ...

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ISBN: 9781787125537