Previously "repmgr standby switchover" would abort if any node was unreachable,
as that means it was unable to check if repmgrd is running.
However if the node has been marked as inactive in the repmgr metadata, it's
reasonable to assume the node is no longer part of the replication cluster
and does not need to be checked.
In Barman mode, if there is an existing, populated data directory, and
the "--force" option is provided, the entire directory was being deleted,
and later recreated as part of the rsync process, but with the default
permissions.
Fix this by recreating the data directory with the correct permissions
after deleting it.
If --siblings-follow is not supplied, list all nodes which repmgr considers
to be siblings (this will include the witness server, if in use), and
which will remain attached to the old primary.
Improve sample PostgreSQL replication configuration, including
links to the PostgreSQL documentation for each configuration item.
Also set "max_replication_slots" to the same value as "max_wal_senders"
to ensure the sample configuration will work regardless of whether
replication slots are in use, though we do still encourage careful
reading of the comments in the sample configuration and the documentation
in general.
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.
Unless the PQExpBuffer is required for the duration of the function,
ensure it's always a variable local to the relevant code block. This
mitigates the risk of accidentally accessing a generically named
PQExpBuffer which hasn't been initialised or was previously terminated.