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doc: update witness server notes

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- clarify that a separate PostgreSQL instance is needed for each
  witness server
- remove historical 3.x reference
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Ian Barwick
2022-03-16 10:26:47 +09:00
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as otherwise if the primary server fails due to hardware issues, the witness
server will be lost too.
</para>
<note>
<important>
<simpara>
&repmgr; 3.3 and earlier provided a <command>repmgr create witness</command>
command, which would automatically create a PostgreSQL instance. However
this often resulted in an unsatisfactory, hard-to-customise instance.
A PostgreSQL instance can only accommodate a single witness server.
</simpara>
</note>
<simpara>
If you are planning to use a single server to support more than one
witness server, a separate PostgreSQL instance is required for each
witness server in use.
</simpara>
</important>
<para>
The witness server should be configured in the same way as a normal
&repmgr; node; see section <xref linkend="configuration"/>.