PG 14 + Pgpool-II + Watchdog 实现高可用

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Pgpool-II + Watchdog配置示例

This section shows an example of streaming replication configuration using Pgpool-II. In this example, we use 3 Pgpool-II servers to manage PostgreSQL servers to create a robust cluster system and avoid the single point of failure or split brain.

PostgreSQL 14 is used in this configuration example. All scripts have been tested with PostgreSQL 10 and later.

1. Requirements

We assume that all the Pgpool-II servers and the PostgreSQL servers are in the same subnet.

2. Cluster System Configuration

We use 3 servers with CentOS 7.9 installed. Let these servers be server1 server2, server3. We install PostgreSQL and Pgpool-II on each server.

Figure 8-1. Cluster System Configuration

Note: The roles of Active, Standby, Primary, Standby are not fixed and may be changed by further operations.

Table 8-2. Hostname and IP address

HostnameIP AddressVirtual IP
server1192.168.137.101192.168.137.150
server2192.168.137.102192.168.137.150
server3192.168.137.103192.168.137.150

Table 8-3. PostgreSQL version and Configuration

ItemValueDetail
PostgreSQL Version14.0-
port5432-
$PGDATA/var/lib/pgsql/14/data-
Archive modeon/var/lib/pgsql/archivedir
Replication SlotsEnable-
Start automaticallyEnable-

Table 8-4. Pgpool-II version and Configuration

ItemValueDetail
Pgpool-II Version4.3.0-
port9999Pgpool-II accepts connections
9898PCP process accepts connections
9000watchdog accepts connections
9694UDP port for receiving Watchdog's heartbeat signal
Config file/etc/pgpool-II/pgpool.confPgpool-II config file
Pgpool-II start userpostgres (Pgpool-II 4.1 or later)Pgpool-II 4.0 or before, the default startup user is root
Running modestreaming replication mode-
WatchdogonLife check method: heartbeat
Start automaticallyEnable-

Table 8-5. Various sample scripts included in rpm package

FeatureScriptDetail
Failover/etc/pgpool-II/failover.sh.sampleRun by failover_command to perform failover
/etc/pgpool-II/follow_primary.sh.sampleRun by follow_primary_command to synchronize the Standby with the new Primary after failover.
Online recovery/etc/pgpool-II/recovery_1st_stage.sampleRun by recovery_1st_stage_command to recovery a Standby node
/etc/pgpool-II/pgpool_remote_start.sampleRun after recovery_1st_stage_command to start the Standby node
Watchdog/etc/pgpool-II/escalation.sh.sampleRun by wd_escalation_command to switch the Active/Standby Pgpool-II safely

The above scripts are included in the RPM package and can be customized as needed.

3. Installation

In this example, we install Pgpool-II and PostgreSQL RPM packages with YUM.

Install PostgreSQL from PostgreSQL YUM repository.

Since Pgpool-II related packages are also included in PostgreSQL YUM repository, add the "exclude" settings to /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo so that Pgpool-II is not installed from PostgreSQL YUM repository.

The following is a setting example of /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo.

Install Pgpool-II from Pgpool-II YUM repository.

4. Before Starting

Before you start the configuration process, please check the following prerequisites.

  • Set up PostgreSQL streaming replication on the primary server. In this example, we use WAL archiving.

    First, we create the directory /var/lib/pgsql/archivedir to store WAL segments on all servers. In this example, only Primary node archives WAL locally.

    Then we edit the configuration file $PGDATA/postgresql.conf on server1 (primary) as follows. Enable wal_log_hints to use pg_rewind. Since the Primary may become a Standby later, we set hot_standby = on.

    We use the online recovery functionality of Pgpool-II to setup standby server after the primary server is started.

  • Because of the security reasons, we create a user repl solely used for replication purpose, and a user pgpool for streaming replication delay check and health check of Pgpool-II.

    Table 8-6. Users

    User NamePasswordDetail
    replreplPostgreSQL replication user
    pgpoolpgpoolPgpool-II health check (health_check_user) and replication delay check (sr_check_user) user
    postgrespostgresUser running online recovery

    If you want to show "replication_state" and "replication_sync_state" column in SHOW POOL NODES command result, role pgpool needs to be PostgreSQL super user or or in pg_monitor group (Pgpool-II4.1 or later). Grant pg_monitor to pgpool:

    Note: If you plan to use detach_false_primary(Pgpool-II 4.0 or later), role "pgpool" needs to be PostgreSQL super user or or in "pg_monitor" group to use this feature.

    Assuming that all the Pgpool-II servers and the PostgreSQL servers are in the same subnet and edit pg_hba.conf to enable scram-sha-256 authentication method.

  • To use the automated failover and online recovery of Pgpool-II, the settings that allow passwordless SSH to all backend servers between Pgpool-II execution user (default root user) and postgresuser and between postgres user and postgres user are necessary. Execute the following command on all servers to set up passwordless SSH. The generated key file name is id_rsa_pgpool.

    After setting SSH, use ssh postgres@serverX -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_pgpool command to make sure that you can log in without entering a password. Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config if necessary and restart sshd.

  • To allow repl user without specifying password for streaming replication and online recovery, and execute pg_rewind using postgres, we create the .pgpass file in postgres user's home directory and change the permission to 600 on each PostgreSQL server.

  • When connect to Pgpool-II and PostgreSQL servers, the target port must be accessible by enabling firewall management softwares. Following is an example for CentOS/RHEL7.

  • We set Pgpool-II to start automatically on all servers.

    Note: If you set the auto-start of Pgpool-II, you need to change the search_primary_node_timeout to an appropriate value that you can start the PostgreSQL after the server has been started. Pgpool-II will fail if it can't connect to thePostgreSQL on the backend during the search_primary_node_timeout.

5. Create pgpool_node_id

From Pgpool-II 4.2, now all configuration parameters are identical on all hosts. If watchdog feature is enabled, to distinguish which host is which, a pgpool_node_id file is required. You need to create a pgpool_node_id file and specify the pgpool (watchdog) node number (e.g. 0, 1, 2 ...) to identify pgpool (watchdog) host.

  • server1

  • server2

  • server3

6. Pgpool-II Configuration

When installing Pgpool-II using YUM, the Pgpool-II configuration file pgpool.conf is installed in /etc/pgpool-II.

Since from Pgpool-II 4.2, all configuration parameters are identical on all hosts, you can edit pgpool.conf on any pgpool node and copy the edited pgpool.conf file to the other pgpool nodes.

6.1. Clustering mode

Pgpool-II has several clustering modes. To set the clustering mode, backend_clustering_mode can be used. In this configuration example, streaming replication mode is used.

6.2. listen_addresses

To allow Pgpool-II to accept all incoming connections, we set listen_addresses = '*'.

6.3. port

Specify the port number Pgpool-II listen on.

6.4. Streaming Replication Check

Specify replication delay check user and password in sr_check_user and sr_check_password. In this example, we leave sr_check_password empty, and create the entry in pool_passwd. See Section 6.9 for how to create the entry in pool_passwd. From Pgpool-II 4.0, if these parameters are left blank, Pgpool-II will first try to get the password for that specific user from pool_passwd file before using the empty password.

6.5. Health Check

Enable health check so that Pgpool-II performs failover. Also, if the network is unstable, the health check fails even though the backend is running properly, failover or degenerate operation may occur. In order to prevent such incorrect detection of health check, we set health_check_max_retries = 3. Specify health_check_user and health_check_password in the same way like sr_check_user and sr_check_password.

6.6. Backend Settings

Specify the PostgreSQL backend information. Multiple backends can be specified by adding a number at the end of the parameter name.

To show "replication_state" and "replication_sync_state" column in SHOW POOL NODES command result, backend_application_name parameter is required. Here we specify each backend's hostname in these parameters. (Pgpool-II 4.1 or later)

6.7. Failover configuration

Specify failover.sh script to be executed after failover in failover_command parameter. If we use 3 PostgreSQL servers, we need to specify follow_primary_command to run after failover on the primary node failover. In case of two PostgreSQL servers, follow_primary_command setting is not necessary.

Pgpool-II replaces the following special characters with the backend specific information while executing the scripts. See failover_command for more details about each character.

Note: %N and %S are added in Pgpool-II 4.1. Please note that these characters cannot be specified if using Pgpool-II 4.0 or earlier.

Sample scripts failover.sh and follow_primary.sh are installed in /etc/pgpool-II/. Create failover scripts using these sample files.

Basically, it should work if you change PGHOME according to PostgreSQL installation directory.

Since user authentication is required to use the PCP command in follow_primary_command script, we need to specify user name and md5 encrypted password in pcp.conf in format "username:encrypted password".

if pgpool user is specified in PCP_USER in follow_primary.sh,

then we use pg_md5 to create the encrypted password entry for pgpool user as below:

Since follow_primary.sh script must execute PCP command without entering a password, we need to create .pcppass in the home directory of Pgpool-II startup user (postgres user) on each server.

Note: The follow_primary.sh script does not support tablespaces. If you are using tablespaces, you need to modify the script to support tablespaces.

6.8. Pgpool-II Online Recovery Configurations

Next, in order to perform online recovery with Pgpool-II we specify the PostgreSQL user name and online recovery command recovery_1st_stage. Because Superuser privilege in PostgreSQL is required for performing online recovery, we specify postgres user in recovery_user. Then, we create recovery_1st_stage and pgpool_remote_start in database cluster directory of PostgreSQL primary server (server1), and add execute permission.

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