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Abdul Sayeed
PostgreSQL DBA
Postgres Professional Certified
Skype: abdul.sayeed24


On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 at 12:21 PM, normandavis1990 <normandavis1...@proton.me>
wrote:

> > On Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 at 1:24 AM, Abdul Sayeed <
> abdulsayee...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When Master server goes down, either you need to promote one of slave node
> or configure HA mechanism so that in case of master server goes down it
> will automatically promote the slave server as new master.
>
> Patroni HA tool would be good option for your requirement.
>
> https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README.html
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Abdul Sayeed
> PostgreSQL DBA
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 at 2:15 AM, Israel Brewster <ijbrews...@alaska.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mar 1, 2024, at 11:36 AM, normandavis1990 <normandavis1...@proton.me>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Thursday, February 29th, 2024 at 11:38 PM, Israel Brewster <
>> ijbrews...@alaska.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 29, 2024, at 10:15 AM, David G. Johnston <
>> david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, February 29, 2024, normandavis1990 <
>> normandavis1...@proton.me> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> What is the difference between High Availability and Replication?
>>>
>>
>> The former is a goal, the later is a technique.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps more specifically: Replication is simply Replicating - or copying
>> - the “master” database to one or more “slave” databases, generally in
>> real-time such that the slave database clusters are replicas of the master.
>> This is good when the master goes down, because you’ll still have one or
>> more copies of it available, but by itself it doesn’t keep there from being
>> an outage if/when the master goes down.
>>
>> High Availability layers on top of replication to provide some means of
>> ensuring that the database is HIGHLY available, such as an automatic
>> failover system or load balancer. Many different options that work in many
>> different ways are available to help meet this goal.
>> ---
>> Israel Brewster
>> Software Engineer
>> Alaska Volcano Observatory
>> Geophysical Institute - UAF
>> 2156 Koyukuk Drive
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/2156+Koyukuk+Drive+Fairbanks+AK+99775-7320?entry=gmail>
>> Fairbanks AK 99775-7320
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/2156+Koyukuk+Drive+Fairbanks+AK+99775-7320?entry=gmail>
>> Work: 907-474-5172
>> cell: 907-328-9145
>>
>>
>> David J.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> You said "This is good when the master goes down, because you’ll still
>> have one or more copies of it available, but by itself it doesn’t keep
>> there from being an outage if/when the master goes down.". What does "goes
>> down" mean?
>>
>>
>> Exactly what I said - it goes down. Not functioning. Offline.
>> Inaccessible. It is not up and running, therefore, it is down.
>>
>> In Replication mode, if the primary server is shut down, then the data
>> will also be lost?
>>
>>
>> No. As I said - and you quoted - “When the master goes down…you’ll still
>> have one or more copies of it available”. So no, the data will NOT be lost.
>>
>> ---
>> Israel Brewster
>> Software Engineer
>> Alaska Volcano Observatory
>> Geophysical Institute - UAF
>> 2156 Koyukuk Drive
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/2156+Koyukuk+Drive+Fairbanks+AK+99775-7320?entry=gmail>
>> Fairbanks AK 99775-7320
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/2156+Koyukuk+Drive+Fairbanks+AK+99775-7320?entry=gmail>
>> Work: 907-474-5172
>> cell: 907-328-9145
>>
>>
> Hi,
> Does installing Patroni cause the primary server to stop even for a short
> time?
>

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