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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook Over 165 effective recipes for database management and maintenance in PostgreSQL 10

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788474924
Length 576 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Gianni Ciolli Gianni Ciolli
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Simon Riggs Simon Riggs
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring the Database 3. Configuration 4. Server Control 5. Tables and Data 6. Security 7. Database Administration 8. Monitoring and Diagnosis 9. Regular Maintenance 10. Performance and Concurrency 11. Backup and Recovery 12. Replication and Upgrades 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using repmgr

As said before, replication is great provided it works. It works well if it's understood and works even better if it's tested. This is a great reason to use repmgr utility.

repmgr 4.0 is an open source tool designed specifically for PostgreSQL replication. To get additional information about repmgr, visit http://www.repmgr.org/.

The repmgr utility provides a command-line interface and a management process (daemon) used to monitor and manage PostgreSQL servers involved in replication. The repmgr utility easily supports more than two nodes, with automatic failover detection.

Getting ready

Install repmgr utility from binary packages on each PostgreSQL node.

Set up replication security and network access...

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