Previously, if the witness server connection details were provided
to "repmgr witness register" rather than those of the primary server,
repmgr a) write the node record to the witness server rather than
the primary, and b) would loop indefinitely trying to copy the
node table to itself.
Addresses GitHub #538.
Eventually we'll want to have this contain the optional replication
info contained in the t_node_info struct, which should then contain a
pointer to a ReplInfo struct.
Ensure repmgr checks the standby (promotion candidate) is currently
attached to the primary (demotion candidate).
Addresses issue reported in GitHub #519.
Immediately after the demotion candidate (primary) has shut down, we can't
be absolutely sure that the walreceiver has flushed all WAL to disk, so
checking pg_last_wal_receive_lsn() at that point might not reflect
the actual last available WAL location.
To handle this, we'll loop for a while (timeout controlled by configuration
parameter "wal_receive_check_timeout") before finally deciding whether
the standby is still behind the shut-down primary.
Addresses issue raised in GitHub #518.
Previously the code would do nothing if an attempt was made to add parameters
if the array is already full.
As the array is designed to contain all valid libpq connection parameters,
there's no reason it should ever "overflow" like this. If there is, then
it means the caller is attempting to add invalid values. Add an Assert()
so we can easily detect this in the unlikely event it ever occurs.
Noted after examining the issue raised in GitHub #533, which is nonsensical
as it implies we'd be OK with writing beyond the end of the array, however
it doesn't hurt to make it a bit clearer what is happening and why.
If the rejoin target is not in recovery, but not registered as primary
(we detect this by attempting to connect to the registered primary)
we abort and suggest fixing the repmgr metadata first.
In some places we were still providing "false" from the original implementation,
which was intended to indicate whether a negative value was allowed.
This has not been a problem, as it merely means we have been providing "0",
which is the same thing; however we can finer-tune some of the calls
(e.g. node ID must be or greater).
The initial implementation was designed to fall back to "manual"
start/stop of repmgrd if the "repmgrd_service_..._command" parameters
were not set.
However on reflection, this is too much of a potential footgun, so
we will mandate provision of these parameters.
repmgr will attempt to construct appropriate commands to start
and stop repmgrd, but usually it's preferable for them to be explicitly
defined, particularly if repmgr is installed from packages.
From the next major release, the current documentation will be located in the
"/docs/current/" subdirectory. This makes it easier to provide canonical
links to the latest version of the documentation (similar to how the
main PostgreSQL documentation is organised).
Once the following major release is available, the documentation will be moved
to a subdirectory with the version number, e.g. "/docs/4.3/".
