Re: Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0

On 5/16/16 2:36 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Right.  I am thinking of writing some docs about how to avoid downtime
> for upgrades of various types.

If there's some magic sauce to shrink pg_upgrade downtime to near 0 I 
think folks would be very interested in that.

Outside of that scenario, I think what would be far more useful is 
information on how to do seamless master/replica switchovers using tools 
like pgBouncer or pgPool. That ability is useful *all* the time, not 
just when upgrading. It makes it trivial to do OS-level maintenance, and 
if you're using a form of logical replication it also makes it trivial 
to do expensive database maintenance, such as cluster/vacuum 
full/reindex. I've worked with a few clients that had that ability and 
it was a huge stress reducer. As a bonus, an unplanned outage of the 
master becomes far less stressful, because you already know exactly how 
to fail over.
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