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Re:Postgres high-availability cluster with auto-failover and... by dan353hehe on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @08:45AM (#10580933)
True it is, however to use manatee you have to build on ZFS, which unfortunately is not as widely adopted as it should be.
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Re:Postgres high-availability cluster with auto-failover and... by jpgvm on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @09:53AM (#10581373)
Aye but ZFS on Linux is rock solid and definitely the way to go.

Technically you don't need ZFS to use the Manatee state machine. You could swap out the ZFS snapshot transfer service to use pg_basebackup instead.

For anyone interested I have made the appropriate alterations to Manatee to get it to run on Ubuntu with the standard ubuntu-zfs packages.

The fork is here: https://github.com/josephglanville/manatee

Chef cookbook to help you get started along with the other dependencies: https://github.com/josephglanville/cookbook-manatee

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