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

Migrating to PGD

Migrate from PSR to EDB Postgres Distributed.