PostgreSQL Advanced: Replication and High Availability (RepMgr, PgPool-II) Training Course
This course offers a comprehensive exploration of replication, high availability, and cluster management within PostgreSQL. Participants will learn to construct and oversee multi-node environments, set up automated failover mechanisms, and investigate load balancing and connection pooling strategies. The curriculum features hands-on replication labs and recovery simulations.
Upon finishing this course, participants will be equipped to:
- Set up and manage both physical and logical replication
- Architect high-availability PostgreSQL topologies
- Automate failover and recovery processes using RepMgr
- Deploy load balancing via PgPool-II
- Guarantee data continuity and minimize downtime during system failures
Course Outline
1. PostgreSQL Standard Replication
- Physical replication (WAL streaming)
- Synchronous and asynchronous replication
- Configuring Primary and Standby servers
- Using replication slots
- Manual failover
- Logical replication
2. Managing Replication with RepMgr
- RepMgr components and repository
- Installation and configuration
- Registering nodes
- Creating Standby servers
- Switchover and failover
- Automatic failover with repmgrd
3. High Availability with PgPool-II
- PgPool-II architecture
- Installing and configuring
- Starting/stopping PgPool-II
- Basic administration tools and commands
- Managing replication and load balancing
- Configuring automatic failover and failback
- Using Watchdog architecture
- Connection pooling
Requirements
- Solid understanding of PostgreSQL architecture and configuration
- Practical experience with Linux command line and database administration tasks
Audience
Database Administrators, DevOps Engineers, and System Architects tasked with ensuring database reliability, redundancy, and uptime.
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