In "recovery.conf", the configuration parameter "node_name" is used
as the "application_name" value, which will be truncated by PostgreSQL
to 63 characters (NAMEDATALEN - 1).
repmgr sometimes needs to be able to extract the application name from
pg_stat_replication to determine if a node is connected (e.g. when
executing "repmgr standby register"), so the comparison will fail
if "node_name" exceeds 63 characters.
1. The target additional-maintainer-clean was misspelled as
maintainer-additional-clean.
2. Add add missing clean targets, in particular sysutils.o, config.h,
repmgr_version.h, and Makefile.global. While at it, use a wildcard
for obj files.
3. Don't delete configure.
4. Remove generated file doc/version.sgml from the repo.
5. Have maintainer-clean recurse to the doc directory.
If "failover_validation_command" is set, and the command returns an error,
rerun the election.
There is a pause between reruns to avoid "churn"; the length of this pause
is controlled by the configuration parameter "election_rerun_interval".
This enable selection of the method repmgrd uses to check whether the upstream
node is available. Possible values are:
- "ping" (default): uses PQping() to check server availability
- "connection": executes a query on the connection to check server
availability (similar to repmgr3.x).
Previously, if PostgreSQL was not running on the node, repmgrd and
pause status were shown as "0", implying their status was known.
This brings the csv output in line with the human-readable output,
which displays "n/a" in this case.
With long-running copy operations, it's possible the connection(s) to
the primary/source server may go away for some reason, so recheck
their availability before attempting to reuse.
We only want to check the status of physical replication slots
to determine whether a streaming replication standby has become
detached and there is therefore a risk of uncontrolled WAL buildup
on the local node.
It's not feasible to second-guess the state of logical replication
slots.
