pgautofailover

Overview

PGDG 1st Party Extension: pgautofailover : pg_auto_failover

Information

• Extension ID: 5120
• Extension Name: pgautofailover
• Package Name: pgautofailover
• Category: ADMIN
• License: PostgreSQL
• Website: https://github.com/hapostgres/pg_auto_failover
• Language: C
• Extra Tags: N/A
• Comment: N/A

Metadata

• Latest Version: 2.2
• Postgres Support: 17,16,15,14,13
• Need Load: Explicit Loading Required
• Need DDL: Need CREATE EXTENSION DDL
• Relocatable: Can be installed into other schemas
• Trusted: Untrusted, Require Superuser to Create
• Schemas: N/A
• Requires: btree_gist

RPM / DEB

• RPM Repo: PGDG
• RPM Name: pg_auto_failover_$v*
• RPM Ver : 2.2
• RPM Deps: N/A
• DEB Repo: PGDG
• DEB Name: postgresql-$v-auto-failover
• DEB Ver : 2.1
• DEB Deps: N/A

Availability

Installation

Install pgautofailover via the pig CLI tool:

pig ext install pgautofailover

Install pgautofailover via Pigsty playbook:

./pgsql.yml -t pg_extension -e '{"pg_extensions": ["pgautofailover"]}' # -l <cls>

Install pgautofailover RPM from YUM repo directly:

dnf install pg_auto_failover_16*;
dnf install pg_auto_failover_15*;
dnf install pg_auto_failover_14*;
dnf install pg_auto_failover_13*;

Install pgautofailover DEB from APT repo directly:

apt install postgresql-17-auto-failover;
apt install postgresql-16-auto-failover;
apt install postgresql-15-auto-failover;
apt install postgresql-14-auto-failover;
apt install postgresql-13-auto-failover;

Extension pgautofailover has to be loaded via shared_preload_libraries

shared_preload_libraries = 'pgautofailover'; # add to pg cluster config

Create pgautofailover extension on PostgreSQL cluster:

CREATE EXTENSION pgautofailover CASCADE;