Perform maintenance tasks and schema modifications in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with minimal downtime using Blue Green deployment
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This article discusses how to perform database maintenance tasks and schema modifications in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with minimal downtime using blue/green deployments.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview of blue/green deployments
- Prerequisites for setting up the test environment
- Monitoring replication lag between blue and green environments
- Use cases:
- Gather statistics using ANALYZE
- Perform VACUUM FULL on catalog tables
- Adjust the fill factor for a table
- Rebuild indexes for optimization
- Add new columns with and without default values
- Expand column size in a table
- Refresh materialized views
- Enable required extensions in shared_preload_libraries
- Limitations of blue/green deployments
- Cleanup steps
Conclusion: Blue/green deployments allow performing maintenance operations and schema changes with minimal impact on the production database.
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