--- title: How Timescale Replication Works: Enabling HA in PostgreSQL description: Timescale has released early access to database replication, enabling high availability and fault tolerance. Replicas in Timescale act as duplicates of the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-timescale-replication-works-enabling-ha-in-postgresql-9s8zim4ds twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Timescale Replication Works: Enabling HA in PostgreSQL | daily.dev og:description: Timescale has released early access to database replication, enabling high availability and fault tolerance. Replicas in Timescale act as duplicates of the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-timescale-replication-works-enabling-ha-in-postgresql-9s8zim4ds og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9S8zIM4dS.png og:image:alt: How Timescale Replication Works: Enabling HA in PostgreSQL og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Timescale Replication Works: Enabling HA in PostgreSQL **[TigerData \(Creators of TimescaleDB\)](https://daily.dev/sources/tigerdata)** · 15 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Timescale has released early access to database replication, enabling high availability and fault tolerance. Replicas in Timescale act as duplicates of the main database and can be used to scale read workloads and isolate the primary database for writes. Users can direct read queries to replicas for improved performance. Timescale automates the setup and management of replicas, making it easy to increase data availability. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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