This section gives a quick introduction to BDR, including setting up a sample BDR installation and a few simple examples to try.
These instructions are not suitable for a production install, as they neglect security considerations, proper system administration procedure, etc. If you're trying to set up a production BDR install, read the rest of the BDR manual, starting with Installation.
For this Quick Start example, we are setting up a two node cluster with two PostgreSQL instances on the same server. We are using the terms node and instance interchangeably.
To try out BDR you'll need to install the BDR extension and the modified PostgreSQL release that it requires to run. Then it's necessary to initdb new database install(s), edit their configuration files to load BDR, and start them up.