Having successfully connected to the primary, we can use the actual parameters
reported by libpq to create "primary_conninfo", rather than the limited
subset previously defined by repmgr. Assuming that the user can
pass a conninfo string to repmgr (see following commit), this makes it
possible to provide other connection parameters, e.g. related to
SSL usage.
If the pidfile is still there after apparent shutdown, or we're
unable to access the server at all, something has gone wrong and
the switchover should be aborted.
If a connection attempt fails, keep pinging the server until it
finally away, or the timeout kicks in.
Addresses issue reported in GitHub #188 and previously noted in
repmgr.c
This enables the switchover operation to function if the remote server
(current primary) has a different binary directory to the current
server, and addresses the issue reported in GitHub #172.
This can be used so that repmgr standby clone adds the string
specified in repmgr.conf as a restore_command in recovery.conf.
We can use this option for integration with barman by setting the
parameter to an appropriate get-wal call.
all the WALs needed without needing to set wal_keep_segments to
a ridiculously high value.
This is not necessary on 9.6 if we are using replication slots,
as all WAL segments needed will be kept on the primary until
they are consumed by the slot.
from the postgresql code so we use that instead of issuing system calls
with rm -rf ....
I also eliminated the rm -rf for pg_xlog.
Will later do the same with the other system call to remove files
in pg_replslot/
issue with rsync returning non-zero status on vanishing files on commit
83e5f98171.
Alvaro Herrera gave me some tips which pointed me in the correct
direction.
This was reported by sungjae lee <sj860908@gmail.com>
Although the witness server will resync the repl_nodes table following
a failover, other operations (e.g. removing or cloning a standby)
were previously not reflected in the witness server's copy of this
table.
As a short-term workaround, automatically resync the table at regular
intervals (defined by the configuration file parameter
"witness_repl_nodes_sync_interval_secs", default 30 seconds).
This fixes a bug introduced into the previous commit, where the
witness node was registered last to prevent a spurious node record
being created even if witness server creation failed.
