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Published inMar 2022
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ISBN-139781803248974
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Simon Riggs
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Simon Riggs

Simon Riggs is the CTO of 2ndQuadrant, having contributed to PostgreSQL as a major developer and committer for 14 years. He has written and designed features for replication, performance, BI, management, and security. Under his guidance, 2ndQuadrant is now a leading developer of open source PostgreSQL, serving hundreds of clients in USA, Europe, and worldwide. Simon is a frequent speaker at many conferences on PostgreSQL Futures. He has worked as a database architect for 30 years.
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Gianni Ciolli
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Gianni Ciolli

Gianni Ciolli is the Vice President for Solutions Architecture at EnterpriseDB (EDB). As a PostgreSQL consultant, he has driven many successful enterprise deployments for customers in every part of the globe.Gianni is respected worldwide as a popular speaker and trainer at many PostgreSQL conferences in Europe and abroad over the last 14 years. He has worked with free and open-source software since the 1990s as an active member of the community (Prato Linux User Group, and Italian PostgreSQL Users Group). Gianni has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Florence. He lives in London with his son. His other interests include music, drama, poetry and athletics.
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Replication best practices

Some general best practices for running replication systems are described in this recipe.

Getting ready

Reading a list of best practices should be the very first thing you do when designing your database architecture. So, the best way to get ready for it is to avoid doing anything and start straight away with the next section, How to do it...

How to do it…

Here are some best practices for replication:

  • Use the latest release of PostgreSQL. Replication features are changing fast, with each new release improving on the previous in major ways based on our real-world experience. The idea that earlier releases are somehow more stable, and thus more easily usable, is definitely not the case for replication.
  • Use similar hardware and OSs on all systems. Replication allows nodes to switch roles. If we switch over or fail over to different hardware, we may get performance issues, and it will be hard to maintain...
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Simon Riggs

Simon Riggs is the CTO of 2ndQuadrant, having contributed to PostgreSQL as a major developer and committer for 14 years. He has written and designed features for replication, performance, BI, management, and security. Under his guidance, 2ndQuadrant is now a leading developer of open source PostgreSQL, serving hundreds of clients in USA, Europe, and worldwide. Simon is a frequent speaker at many conferences on PostgreSQL Futures. He has worked as a database architect for 30 years.
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Gianni Ciolli

Gianni Ciolli is the Vice President for Solutions Architecture at EnterpriseDB (EDB). As a PostgreSQL consultant, he has driven many successful enterprise deployments for customers in every part of the globe.Gianni is respected worldwide as a popular speaker and trainer at many PostgreSQL conferences in Europe and abroad over the last 14 years. He has worked with free and open-source software since the 1990s as an active member of the community (Prato Linux User Group, and Italian PostgreSQL Users Group). Gianni has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Florence. He lives in London with his son. His other interests include music, drama, poetry and athletics.
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