Webinar | High Availability in PostgreSQL for Oracle DBAs

On June 19, Umair Shahid did a deep dive into how PostgreSQL handles high availability (HA) with a lens specifically tailored for Oracle DBAs, in a joint webinar with our friends at Dbvisit.

If you are familiar with Oracle's HA concepts but new to PostgreSQL, or managing both systems, this session will bridge the knowledge gap.

Following topics were covered:

• → What is high availability?  
• → Redundancy via clustering
  → Auto failover and switchover 
  → Warm standby vs hot standby
• → Key differences, use cases, and trade-offs
• → Streaming physical replication vs logical replication
• → Synchronous replication vs asynchronous replication
• → Multi-node clusters with active-active configuration
• → Toolingveview of Dbvisit StandbyMP, Patroni, and Pgpool

About the Speaker

Umair Shahid

Umair Shahid specializes in helping businesses keep their critical PostgreSQL databases fast, reliable, and resilient. He partners with CTOs who require robust, scalable, and cost-efficient database solutions to power their applications.

As the founder of Stormatics, he leads a team of PostgreSQL experts delivering professional services through a signature methodology, developed over years of hands-on experience with mission-critical production environments. His team leverages both open-source and proprietary tools within the PostgreSQL ecosystem to drive cost savings, enhance performance, and maintain operational continuity.

Recognized as a trusted expert in the global PostgreSQL community, he regularly shares his knowledge at leading conferences such as FOSDEM, SCaLE, and PGConf across the US and Europe. He also delivers live trainings and webinars to hundreds of attendees each month and authors in-depth technical blogs that attract over 10,000 monthly readers.