PostgreSQL + haproxy with multiple IP

April 19, 2016 5.4k views
High Availability PostgreSQL Debian
veeresh
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veeresh

I have setup a postgresql cluster (with one master node and one slave/standby node) using Patroni. I want to use HA proxy in front of my cluster.
I think in this case HA proxy itself could be a single point of failure.
So to avoid this problem if I use multiple nodes for the HA proxy. Then not sure how client will handle the connection in case of failure of IP of HA proxy to which client is corrently connected.
( Or we can say how client/client_app will switch over between different available IP's of HA proxy).

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asb MOD June 24, 2016

In order for HAProxy to not be a single point of failure, you could use a Floating IP. With the help of keepalived, you can configure a set up where the IP address will automatically failover from one HAProxy server to the other. Check out this tutorial for an in depth walk through:

While that article has web servers behind the HAProxy instances instead of Postgres, there shouldn't be any difference in the configuration for keepalived.

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khelal March 4, 2018

Could we use the DigitalOcean Load Balancer instead of HAProxy?

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