Replication
Nikolay takes Michael through the different replication options for Postgres — looking at different use cases, the options for each, and some things to be careful with.
Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
- Replication (docs)
- 9.0 release notes (including built-in replication)
- Slony
- Londiste
- pg_is_in_recovery (pgPedia page)
- Patroni
- Multiple Databases with Active Record
- hot_standby_feedback (docs)
- max_standby_archive_delay or max_standby_streaming_delay (for WAL-shipping and WAL-streaming respectively)
- synchronous_commit
- Synchronous replicas
- Database Lab Engine
- Neon Branching
- Past, Present, and Future of Logical Replication (Postgres TV with Amit Kapila)
- Failover of logical replication slots in Patroni (Postgres TV with Alexander Kukushkin)
- PostgreSQL Subtransactions Considered Harmful (blog post by Nikolay)
- Why we spent the last month eliminating PostgreSQL subtransactions (blog post by GitLab)
- Fivetran
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