Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 11 Documentation

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is a collection of tools to assist you in managing your PostgreSQL database system: it installs PostgreSQL and complements it by a selection of extensions that enable solving essential practical tasks efficiently:

• pg_repack rebuilds PostgreSQL database objects

• pgAudit provides detailed session or object audit logging via the standard PostgreSQL logging facility

• pgBackRest is a backup and restore solution for PostgreSQL

• Patroni is a HA (High Availability) solution for PostgreSQL.

• pg_stat_monitor collects and aggregates statistics for PostgreSQL and provides histogram information.

• wal2json - a PostgreSQL logical decoding JSON output plugin

• HAProxy - a high-availability and load-balancing solution

• A collection of additional PostgreSQL contrib extensions

See also

Blog Posts

• pgBackRest - A Great Backup Solution and a Wonderful Year of Growth
• Securing PostgreSQL as an Enterprise-Grade Environment

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is also shipped with the libpq library. It contains “a set of library functions that allow client programs to pass queries to the PostgreSQL backend server and to receive the results of these queries.” ¹

Installation and Upgrade

• Installing Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL
• Minor Upgrade of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL

Extensions

• pg_stat_monitor

Solutions

• High Availability in PostgreSQL with Patroni

  • Deploying high-availability on Debian and Ubuntu
  • Deploying high-availability on RHEL and CentOS
  • Testing the Patroni PostgreSQL Cluster

• Backup and disaster recovery with pgBackRest

  • Deploying backup and disaster recovery solution in Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL

Uninstall Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL

• Uninstalling Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL

Release Notes

• Release Notes

Reference

• Licensing

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1. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/libpq.html ↩

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Last update: 2022-06-07