Preface
Welcome to PostgreSQL 9 High Availability Cookbook! As a database, PostgreSQL is beginning to take its place in the world of high transaction rates and very large data installations. With this comes an increasing demand for PostgreSQL to act as a critical piece of infrastructure. System outages in these environments can be spectacularly costly and demand a higher caliber of management and tooling.
It is the job of a DBA to ensure that the database is always available for application demands and clients' needs. Yet, this is extremely difficult to accomplish without the necessary skills and experience with a common operating system and PostgreSQL tools. Installing, configuring, and optimizing a PostgreSQL cluster is a tiny fraction of the ...
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