This is to ensure that when repmgr executes pg_basebackup it doesn't
add any options which would conflict with user-supplied options.
This is related to GitHub #206, where the -S/--slot option has been
added for 9.6 - it's important to check this doesn't conflict with
-X/--xlog-method.
While we're at it, rename the ErrorList handling code to ItemList
etc. so we can use it for generic non-error-related lists.
This commit introduces three new options:
- start_command
- stop_command
- restart_command
If these are set, repmgr will issue the specified command instead
of the default pg_ctl commands
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.
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).
Make the code match the documentation.
As pointed out by GitHub user phyber (#142).
Also various other minor improvements to error reporting during
config file parsing.
Perform a switchover by:
- stopping current primary node
- promoting this standby node to primary
- forcing previous primary node to follow this node
Caveats:
- repmgrd must not be running, otherwise it may
attempt a failover
(TODO: find some way of notifying repmgrd of planned
activity like this)
- currently only set up for two-node operation; any other
standbys will probably become downstream cascaded standbys
of the old primary once it's restarted
- as we're executing repmgr remotely (on the old primary),
we'll need the location of its configuration file; this
can be provided explicitly with -C/--remote-config-file,
otherwise repmgr will look in default locations on the
remote server
- this does not yet support "rewinding" stopped nodes
which will be unable to catch up with the primary
TODO:
- update help, docs
- make connection test timeouts/intervals configurable
Also refactor configuration file handling while we're at it.
Previously a configuration file would be ignored if it couldn't
be opened, however that is now treated as an error.
Related to Github #127.
- use the previously introduced repmgr_atoi() function to parse
integers better
- collate all detected errors and output as a list, rather than
failing on the first error.
If no configuration file provided, also check default Postgres
sysconfig dir.
It would also be useful to check the configuration directory
provided by the RPM/DEB packages, not sure if that's programmatically
feasible.
Ignore blank lines which consist of whitespace. Per issue #71 in
GitHub.
This fix also improves comment handling and will treat lines with
whitespace before the '#' character as whitespace.
Command to be executed each time an event is logged.
Following formatting sequences will be interpolated:
%e - event type
%d - description
%s - success (1 or 0)
%t - timestamp
No need to prefix each line with the program name; this was pretty
inconsistent anyway. The only place where log output needs to identify
the outputting program is when syslog is being used, which is done
anyway.
