PGD Proxy v5.6
Documentation improvements are made only to the latest version.
As per semantic versioning, PGD minor releases remain backward compatible and may include important bug fixes and enhancements.
We recommend upgrading the latest minor release as soon as possible.
If you want up-to-date information, read the latest PGD documentation.
Managing application connections is an important part of high availability. PGD Proxy offers a way to manage connections to the EDB Postgres Distributed cluster. It acts as a proxy layer between the client application and the Postgres database.
PGD Proxy overview provides an overview of the PGD Proxy, its processes, and how it interacts with the EDB Postgres Distributed cluster.
Installing the PGD Proxy service covers installation of the PGD Proxy service on a host.
Configuring PGD Proxy details the three levels (group, node, and proxy) of configuration on a cluster that control how the PGD Proxy service behaves.
Administering PGD Proxy shows how to switch the write leader and manage the PGD Proxy.
Monitoring PGD Proxy looks at how to monitor PGD Proxy through the cluster and at a service level.
Read-only routing explains how the read-only routing feature in PGD Proxy enables read scalability.
Raft provides an overview of the Raft consensus mechanism used to coordinate PGD Proxy.