PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) v2.3.0

Posted on 2020-03-10 by Dalibo
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PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) v2.3.0 has been released on March 9th 2020 under the PostgreSQL licence.

See: https://github.com/ClusterLabs/PAF/releases/tag/v2.3.0

Four years and a week after the first public release back in March 2016!

PAF is a PostgreSQL resource agent for Pacemaker. Its original aim is to keep PostgreSQL and Pacemaker administration clear, to keep things simple, very documented and powerful.

Pacemaker is the industry reference for High Availability with Linux. It allows various HA architectures and can handle various services, with dependencies and much more!

This release of PAF features:

  • the support PostgreSQL 12
  • Debian package use /var/run/postgres as pghost default value
  • few minor fixes
  • setting "recovery_template" is now forbidden with PostgreSQL 12!

Source code, releases, packages documentation, procedures and support are available on github:

Packages will be updated on PGDG repos soon.

Please, use github issues, pgsql-general@postgresql.org or users@clusterlabs.org mailing lists if you have questions.

Any feedback is welcomed.