High availability

Nikolay and Michael discuss HA (high availability) — what it means, tools and techniques for maximising it, while going through some of the more common causes of downtime.  Here are some links to some things they mentioned:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availabilityhttps://postgres.fm/episodes/upgrades   https://github.com/shayonj/pg_easy_replicate/ pg_easy_replicate discussion on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36405761  https://postgres.fm/episodes/connection-poolers  https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq.html  Support load balancing in libpq (new feature in Postgres 16) https://commitfest.postgresql.org/42/3679/ target_session_attrs options for high availability and scaling (2021; a post by Laurenz Albe) https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/new-target_session_attrs-settings-for-high-availability-and-scaling-in-postgresql-v14/Postgres 10 highlight - read-write and read-only mode of libpq (2016, a post by Michael Paquier) https://paquier.xyz/postgresql-2/postgres-10-libpq-read-write/ Postgres 10 highlight - Quorum set of synchronous standbys (2017, a post by Michael Paquier) https://paquier.xyz/postgresql-2/postgres-10-quorum-sync/https://github.com/zalando/patroni  https://postgres.fm/episodes/replication  https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2021/06/postgres-bigint-by-default Zero-downtime Postgres schema migrations need this: lock_timeout and retries (2021) https://postgres.ai/blog/20210923-zero-downtime-postgres-schema-migrations-lock-timeout-and-retries A fix in Patroni to mitigate a very long shutdown attempt when archive_command has a lot of WALs to archive https://github.com/zalando/patroni/pull/2067 ~~~What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!~~~Postgres FM is brought to you by:Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.aiMichael Christofides, founder of pgMustardWith special thanks to:Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork