Documentation

Frenquently Asked Questions

See the FAQ page.

Installation

See the Installation page.

Configuration

See the Configuration page.

Administration

• general: see the Administration page.
• Administration cookbook with CentOS 7 (using pcs)
• Administration cookbook with Debian 8 (using crm)

Fencing

We wrote a page about how badly you need to be able to fence your nodes in your cluster and how to do it. See: How to fence your node

Quick starts

Quick starts are tutorials explaining how to install and setup a PostgreSQL cluster in high availability using the PAF project.

Their purpose is to help you to build your first cluster to experiment with. It does not implement various good practices related to your system, Pacemaker or PostgreSQL. These quick start alone are not enough. During your journey in building a safe HA cluster, you must train about security, network, PostgreSQL, Pacemaker, PAF, etc. In regard with PAF, make sure to read carefully documentation from https://clusterlabs.github.io/PAF/documentation.html.

We currently provide the following quick starts:

• quick start with CentOS 6
• quick start with CentOS 7
• quick start with CentOS 8
• quick start with Debian 8
• quick start with Debian 8 in a two node cluster
• quick start with Debian 9 using crm
• quick start with Debian 9 using pcs
• quick start with Debian 10 using pcs