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Re: Proposal: Native High Availability and Automatic Failover in PostgreSQL

Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> — 2025-06-25T15:30:31Z

On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM Ale Rox <gitroxale@gmail.com> wrote:

> Specifically, it would be extremely useful to have:
>
 (snip wishlist)

>  Are there any plans to introduce such functionality in the core
> PostgreSQL project in the future?


Getting failover to work, and work CORRECTLY[1], is an extremely
complicated task, fraught with tons of complicated edge cases and risks. It
may arrive "in core" someday, but it's going to be a very long road. I
would suggest starting on one of your bullets. Pick as small of a feature
as you can, then expand on its use case and all the specific items it would
need to do. Look at Patroni (current best-in-class failover system for
Postgres) and see how it does it, then try to map how Postgres itself could
do the same.

[1] MongoDB does not have a good rep in this area

Cheers,
Greg

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