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Patroni: A Template for PostgreSQL HA with ZooKeeper, etcd or Consul ------------------------------------------------------------

You can find a version of this documentation that is searchable and also easier to navigate at patroni.readthedocs.io.

There are many ways to run high availability with PostgreSQL; for a list, see the PostgreSQL Documentation.

Patroni is a template for you to create your own customized, high-availability solution using Python and - for maximum accessibility - a distributed configuration store like ZooKeeper, etcd or Consul. Database engineers, DBAs, DevOps engineers, and SREs who are looking to quickly deploy HA PostgreSQL in the datacenter-or anywhere else-will hopefully find it useful.

We call Patroni a "template" because it is far from being a one-size-fits-all or plug-and-play replication system. It will have its own caveats. Use wisely.

Note to Kubernetes users: We're currently developing Patroni to be as useful as possible for teams running Kubernetes on top of Google Compute Engine; Patroni can be the HA solution for Postgres in such an environment. To this end, there is a Helm chart that uses Patroni and Spilo to provision a five-node PostgreSQL HA cluster in a Kubernetes+GCE environment. (The Helm chart deploys Spilo Docker images, not just "bare" Patroni.)

Patroni is in active development and accepts contributions. See our Contributing section below for more details.

We report new releases information here.

To get started, do the following from different terminals: :

> etcd --data-dir=data/etcd
> ./patroni.py postgres0.yml
> ./patroni.py postgres1.yml

You will then see a high-availability cluster start up. Test different settings in the YAML files to see how the cluster's behavior changes. Kill some of the components to see how the system behaves.

Add more postgres*.yml files to create an even larger cluster.

Patroni provides an HAProxy configuration, which will give your application a single endpoint for connecting to the cluster's leader. To configure, run:

> haproxy -f haproxy.cfg

> psql --host 127.0.0.1 --port 5000 postgres

Go here for comprehensive information about configuring(overriding) settings via environment variables.

When connecting from an application, always use a non-superuser. Patroni requires access to the database to function properly. By using a superuser from an application, you can potentially use the entire connection pool, including the connections reserved for superusers, with the superuser_reserved_connections setting. If Patroni cannot access the Primary because the connection pool is full, behavior will be undesirable.