Daemonizing changes the current working directory to '/',
which breaks configuration file parsing if the file is in
the previous working directory and provided without an
explicit path.
Also it makes general sense to parse the configuration file
before daemonizing.
While reading node entries from master use a separate PGresult when inserting into witness.
Witness monitoring supplies a null value for 'last_apply_time'.
In the past naming of functions, variables and such didn't really have a
naming scheme. Now they should have.
This is backpatched from master (2.1dev) just because it will be easier
to backpatch other fixes.
repmgr repl_status had the column time_lag which was documented to be
the time a standby is behind master. In fact it only works like this
when viewed on the standby and not on the master: there it only was the
time of the last status update. We dropped that column and replaced it
by a new column „communication_time_lag“ which is the content of the
repl_status column on the master. On the standby we contain the time of
the last update in shared mem though refer always to the correct time
nonetheless where repl_status is queried. We also added a new column,
„replication_time_lag“, which refers to the apply delay.
Refactoring part: we now use a function to generate the PID
file. Sophistication: we now check if the PID contained in the file is a
valid PID. We ignore the file if it doesn't.
after the setsid() we are the process leader. And as a process leader we
are able to open a new terminal, even if we currently don't own one. So
we do another fork and do not call setsid() and not become a process
leader to avoid that.
when repmgr_funcs is not pre-loaded `repmgr_update_standby_location()`
will return false and `repmgr_get_last_standby_location()` will return
an empty string. Thus we may end in an endless loop. To avoid that we fail.
When not flushing and fsync()ing it the output may be garbled due to
concurrent writes to the file (system() spawns a child process with
stdin/stdout/stderr inherited from it's parent)
sleep_monitor replaces the old SLEEP_MONITOR define and makes it
configurable; this is the interval in which we monitor
sleep_delay replaces the old sleep(300) when waiting for the master to
recover.
This option forks the process and generates a new session. This
effectively detaches it from the shell. Don't forget to redirect stderr
or use syslog for logging!
