Postgres High Availability (Talk Notes, PGConf 2014)

I saw a talk by some operations engineers who work for ARIN at PGConf 2014. They presented their architecture for high availability, which uses CMAN, Corosync, and Pacemaker, which handle message queueing, a quorum system and Postgres communication, respectively (Corosync is functioning similar to Zookeeper, as I understand it). Their architecture was interesting for a …