pgactive can perform rolling major version upgrades for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, reducing application impact.
Database upgrades are crucial for performance and security with new features and updates in major versions.
Minor version upgrades are frequent and backward-compatible, while major upgrades introduce non-backward-compatible changes.
Amazon RDS supports various upgrade options, including blue/green deployment for minimal downtime.
Rolling upgrades with pgactive allow a gradual transition to new database versions, improving high availability.
pgactive enables active-active replication for Amazon RDS PostgreSQL, with built-in conflict detection and resolution.
Key benefits of using pgactive include multi-tenant support, minimal downtime, and seamless rollback capabilities.
Steps involved in setting up pgactive for rolling upgrades include configuring parameters, setting up endpoints, and initializing replication.
Limitations of pgactive include handling sequences, materialized views, DDL replication, tables without primary keys, and existing logical replication.
Monitoring replication lag is crucial for pgactive to diagnose issues and prevent conflicting changes in the system.