Managing lifecycle operations v6.2.0

EDB Postgres Distributed (PGD) provides a suite of tools and methodologies for maintaining the health and evolution of your multi-master clusters. Managing lifecycle operations effectively ensures that your high-availability environment remains performant and secure through software updates, migrations, and configuration tuning.

  • Deploying and configuring Instructions for provisioning PGD clusters across different environments, including manual installations, TPA-automated deployments, CloudNativePG deployments, and Hybrid Manager integrations.

  • Upgrading PGD Detailed workflows for performing minor and major version upgrades for both the underlying PostgreSQL engine and the PGD extension with minimal downtime.

  • Testing and tuning for performance Guidance on benchmarking your distributed workloads using pgd-bench and optimizing system parameters for maximum throughput.

  • Performing backup and recovery Best practices for securing your data, including physical and logical backup strategies tailored for distributed multi-master topologies.

Deploying and configuring

How to deploy EDB Postgres Distributed with a range of deployment options.

Upgrading

Upgrading EDB Postgres Distributed and Postgres

Testing and tuning

Learn how to test and tune EDB Postgres Distributed clusters.

Backup and recovery

Backup and recovery