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PostgreSQL 10 High Performance

You're reading from   PostgreSQL 10 High Performance Expert techniques for query optimization, high availability, and efficient database maintenance

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788474481
Length 508 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Enrico Pirozzi Enrico Pirozzi
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Preface 1. PostgreSQL Versions FREE CHAPTER 2. Database Hardware 3. Database Hardware Benchmarking 4. Disk Setup 5. Memory for Database Caching 6. Server Configuration Tuning 7. Routine Maintenance 8. Database Benchmarking 9. Database Indexing 10. Query Optimization 11. Database Activity and Statistics 12. Monitoring and Trending 13. Pooling and Caching 14. Scaling with Replication 15. Partitioning Data 16. Avoiding Common Problems 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Logical replication

One of the new features of PostgreSQL 10 is logical replication.

Logical replication is a method of replicating data objects and their changes, based upon their replication identity (usually a primary key). We use the term logical in contrast to physical replication, which uses exact block addresses and byte-by-byte replication. PostgreSQL supports both mechanisms concurrently.

Logical replication uses a publish and subscribe model with one or more subscribers subscribing to one or more publications on a publisher node. Subscribers pull data from the publications they subscribe to and may subsequently re-publish data to allow cascading replication or more complex configurations.

The concept is quite simple, a publication is created on the database master and a subscription is created on the slaves.

On the master (Node 1), we have to perform the following steps...

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