Previously repmgr would emit the "repmgr extension not found on source node"
which depending on context is somewhat misleading, as it may exist
but not be installed, or the user may be attempting to clone from the
wrong database.
From PostgreSQL 10, a member of the default roles "pg_monitor" and/or
"pg_read_all_settings" can read pg_settings without requiring superuser
privileges.
Previously, a hint was being emitted about making the repmgr user a
member of one of those groups, but no check for membership was being
made, meaning the check could only be run by a superuser.
This should be used wherever we need to show the latest release
date.
Don't use this in the release notes however, as it will be easy to
forget to update it when adding notes for a new release.
Use &repmgrversion; entity to generate the current version number and
prevent document bitrot.
Also define a "release-current" ID attribute for ease of linking to
the current release notes.
Per notification from the mailing list.
While it's technically possible to have a standby follow another
standby while the primary is not available, repmgr will not be able
to update its metadata, which will cause Confusion and Chaos.
Update the documentation to make this clear, and provide a more helpful
error message if this situation occurs. The operation previously
failed anyway, but with an unhelpful message about not being able to
find a node record.
For some reason we were taking the trouble to extract an appliction_name
from the local node's conninfo, but this was being subsequently overwritten
with the node name (which is what we want anyway).
Previously it was being parsed (a step which ensures any "application_name"
set by the caller is changed to the node name), but the original string
was being copied to "primary_conninfo" anyway.
Also create an actual event notification for both actions, rather
than just creating the event record.
This is presumably an oversight from the original conversion to
repmgr4 which no-one has noticed before.
Now the "xlog nomenclature" Pg versions are fading into the past,
rename things related to handling pg_basebackup's -X option
(was: --xlog-method, now: --wal-method) to start with "wal_"
rather than "xlog_".
This is a cosmetic change for code clarity.
