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A few minutes of database downtime can cost your business significant revenue. Many organizations avoid downtime by implementing redundancy with a master database server and one or more standby servers. Open source PostgreSQL is incredibly stable; however, database failures do occur. PostgreSQL does not natively identify a failure or automatically switch traffic to the standby, both of which are needed to maintain high availability.