Online Upgrading Logical and Physical Replication Nodes

With the introduction of failover slots in PostgreSQL-17, logical replication can now be effectively utilized in high-availability environments. This feature ensures that logical replication continues seamlessly even if the publisher node fails and its physical standby is promoted as the new publisher.To maintain continuous replication after a...

This blog post is about how the Logical Replication has evolved over the years in PostgreSQL, what's in the latest release-16, and what's being worked upon for future releases. Logical replication is a method of replicating data objects and their changes, based upon their replication identity (usually a primary key). We use the term logical in...

There are various areas in PostgreSQL like Partitioning, Logical Replication, Parallel Query, Vacuum, etc. which improve with each new version. In this blog, I'll summarize the various enhancements in Logical Replication that users could see in the recently released PostgreSQL 15. You can read the enhancements in this area in the previous release...

In the upcoming release of PostgreSQL-14, we will see multiple enhancements in Logical Replication which I hope will further increase its usage. This blog is primarily to summarize and briefly explain all the enhancements in Logical Replication.Decoding of large transactions:Allow streaming large in-progress transactions to subscribers. Before...

Logical Replication was introduced in PostgreSQL-10 and since then it is being improved with each version. Logical Replication is a method to replicate the data selectively unlike physical replication where the data of the entire cluster is copied. This can be used to build a multi-master or bi-directional replication solution. One of the main...