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PostgreSQL Stream replication

PGMaster - 13.126.75.102

PostgreSQL Slave/Replica name and IP address:

PGSlave - 65.0.130.124

On Master and Slave servers, PostgreSQL 14 must be installed.

Step1: Configurations on master server

1. On master server, configure the IP address(es) listen to for connections from clients in postgresql.conf by removing #
in front of listen_address and give *. Which means listen connections from all.

• listen_addresses - *
• wal_level - Replica
• hot_Standby. – On

2. Now, connect to PostgreSQL on master server and create replica login.

CREATE USER replicator WITH REPLICATION ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'admin@123';

3. Enter the following entry pg_hba.conf file which is located in /etc/postgresql/14/main on master node
host replication replicator 65.0.130.124/24 md5

4. Now, restart the PostgreSQL on Master server by using below command.

sudo systemctl restart postgresql-14


Step2: Configurations on slave(standby) server

1. We have to stop PostgreSQL on Slave server by using following command.

sudo systemctl stop postgresql-14

2. Now, switch to postgres user and take backup of main(data) directory.

su – postgres

cp - /var/lib/pgsql/14/data/ /var/lib/pgsql/14/data_old/

3. Now, remove the contents of main(data) directory on slave server.

rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql/14/data/*

4. Now, use basebackup to take the base backup with the right ownership with postgres(or any user with right
permissions).
pg_basebackup -h 13.126.75.102 -U replicator -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/14/data -Fp -Xs -P -R -C -S pgstandby

Then provide the password for user replicator created in master server.
pg_basebackup: initiating base backup, waiting for checkpoint to complete

....................................

pg_basebackup: syncing data to disk ...

pg_basebackup: base backup completed

5. Notice that standby.signal is created and the connection settings are appended to postgresql.auto.conf.

ls -ltrh /var/lib/pgsql/14/data/

6. postgresql.conf and there is a standby.signal file present in the data directory.

7. Now connect the master server, you should be able to see the replication slot called pgstandby when you open the
pg_replication_slots view as follows.

SELECT * FROM pg_replication_slots;


Step3. Test replication setup

1. Now start PostgreSQL on slave(standby) server.

sudo systemctl start postgresql-14

2. Now, try to create object or database in slave(standby) server. It throws error, because slave(standby) is read-only
server.

create database testdb;

3. We can check the status on standby using below command.

SELECT * FROM pg_stat_wal_receiver;


4. Now, verify the replication type synchronous or aynchronous using below command on master database server.
SELECT * FROM pg_stat_replication;

5. Lets create a database in master server and verify its going to replicate to slave or not.
create database stream;

6. Now, connect to slave and verify the database copied or not.


select datname from pg_database;

7. If you want to enable synchronous, the run the below command on master database server and reload postgresql
service.
ALTER SYSTEM SET synchronous_standby_names TO '*';

systemctl reload postgresql

Thats all. We have successfully setup streaming replication in PostgreSQL step by step on Ubuntu.

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