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Tag: pglogical

Apr282017 by Petr Jelinek7 Comments

Logical Replication in PostgreSQL 10

Petr's PlanetPostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 10 is getting close to its first beta release and it will include the initial support for logical replication, which is was written primarily by me and committed by my colleague Peter Eisentraut, and is internally based on the work 2ndQuadrant did on pglogical (even though the user interface is somewhat different). I'd like to share some overview of basics in this blog post. What's logical replication? Let me start with briefly mentioning what logical replication is and what's it good for. I expect that most people know the PostgreSQL streaming master-standby replication that has been part of PostgreSQL for years and is commonly used both for high availability and read scaling. So why add another replication mechanism and why call it logical? Well, the traditional (more…)
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Mar232017 by craig.ringer2 Comments

Re-import repository keys for BDR and pglogical apt repositories

Craig's PlanetPostgreSQL
The BDR and pglogical apt repository GnuPG signing keys have been renewed. Users should re-import the existing keys. You can verify that it's still the same key as referenced in the documentation, just with a later expiry date. Simply run: wget --quiet -O - http://packages.2ndquadrant.com/bdr/apt/AA7A6805.asc | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-key finger AA7A6805 | grep -A2 -B3 BDR Now check the fingerprint printed by the second command to verify it's the same as this output: pub 2048R/AA7A6805 2015-03-24 [expires: 2019-03-23] Key fingerprint = 855A F5C7 B897 6564 17FA 73D6 5D94 1908 AA7A 6805 uid BDR Apt Signing Key for 2ndQuadrant sub 2048R/739C93DD 2015-03-24 [expires: 2019-03-23] and if it is, run: sudo apt-get update (more…)
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Oct202016 by Petr JelinekNo Comments

pglogical 1.2 with PostgreSQL 9.6 support

Petr's PlanetPostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 9.6 is now out and so is an updated version of pglogical that works with it. For quick guide on how to upgrade the database with pglogical you can check my post which announced 9.6beta support. The main change besides the support for 9.6.x release of PostgreSQL is in the way we handle the output plugin and apply plugin. They have now been merged into single code base and single package so that there is no need to track the pglogical_output separately for the users and developers alike. We fixed several bugs this time and also made upgrades from 9.4 much easier. Here is a more detailed list of changes: keepalive is tuned to much smaller values by default so that pglogical will notice network issues earlier better compatibility when upgrading from PostgreSQL 9.4 (more…)
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Oct182016 by craig.ringerNo Comments

BDR History and future

Craig's PlanetPostgreSQL
BDR is both a patch to PostgreSQL core and an extension on top of PostgreSQL core. How did that come about, and what's it's future? Development of BDR was initiated around the time PostgreSQL 9.2 was in development. Arguably earlier if you count things like the extension mechanism. The goal of BDR is, and has always been, to add necessary features to core PostgreSQL to perform asynchronous loosely-coupled multi-master logical replication. BDR improvements to core PostgreSQL Since it's such a large set of changes it was necessary to structure development as a series of discrete features. A natural dividing line was "things that require changes to the core PostgreSQL code" vs "things that can be done in an extension". So the code was structured accordingly, making BDR a set of patches (more…)
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Sep212016 by craig.ringer35 Comments

BDR is coming to PostgreSQL 9.6

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I'm pleased to say that Postgres-BDR is on its way to PostgreSQL 9.6, and even better, it works without a patched PostgreSQL. BDR has always been an extension, but on 9.4 it required a heavily patched PostgreSQL, one that isn't fully on-disk-format compatible with stock community PostgreSQL 9.4. The goal all along has been to allow it to run as an extension on an unmodified PostgreSQL ... and now we're there. The years of effort we at 2ndQuadrant have put into getting the series of patches from BDR into PostgreSQL core have paid off. As of PostgreSQL 9.6, the only major patch that Postgres-BDR on 9.4 has that PostgreSQL core doesn't, is the sequence access method patch that powers global sequences. This means that Postgres-BDR on 9.6 will not support global sequences, at least not (more…)
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Aug22016 by Simon Riggs5 Comments

Thoughts on Uber’s List of Postgres Limitations

2ndQuadrant, Simon's PlanetPostgreSQL
An Uber technical blog of July 2016 described the perception of “many Postgres limitations”. Regrettably, a number of important technical points are either not correct or not wholly correct because they overlook many optimizations in PostgreSQL that were added specifically to address the cases discussed. In most cases, those limitations were actually true in the distant past of 5-10 years ago, so that leaves us with the impression of comparing MySQL as it is now with PostgreSQL as it was a decade ago. This is no doubt because the post was actually written some time/years? ago and only recently published. This document looks in detail at those points to ensure we have detailed information available for a wider audience, so nobody is confused by PostgreSQL's capabilities. (more…)
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May122016 by Petr JelinekNo Comments

PGLogical 1.1 packages for PostgreSQL 9.6beta1

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We have made pglogical 1.1 packages available for PostgreSQL 9.6beta1 for both rpm and deb based distributions. They are available for install from our standard pglogical package repository. You may ask why do we release packages for beta version of Postgres? Well, one of the reasons is that you can use pglogical to replicate your existing PostgreSQL 9.5 or 9.4 database to the 9.6beta1 in real-time and run tests on it to help weed out any remaining bugs in the beta release. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do that. (more…)
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Feb152016 by craig.ringer13 Comments

Failover slots for PostgreSQL

Craig's PlanetPostgreSQL
Logical decoding and logical replication is getting more attention in the PostgreSQL world. This means we need it working well alongside production HA systems - and it turns out there's a problem there. Replication slots are not themselves synced to physical replicas so you can't continue to use a slot after a master failure results in promotion of a standby. The failover slots patch changes that, syncing slot creation and updates to physical replica servers such as those maintained with WAL archives or streaming replication. That lets logical decoding clients seamlessly follow a failover promotion and continue replay without losing consistency. (more…)
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