packages This section provides technical details about various &repmgr; binary packages, such as location of the installed binaries and configuration files. packages CentOS packages Currently, &repmgr; RPM packages are provided for versions 6.x and 7.x of CentOS. These should also work on matching versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Scientific Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux; together with CentOS, these are the same RedHat-based distributions for which the main community project (PGDG) provides packages (see the PostgreSQL RPM Building Project page for details). Note these &repmgr; RPM packages are not designed to work with SuSE/OpenSuSE. &repmgr; packages are designed to be compatible with community-provided PostgreSQL packages. They may not work with vendor-specific packages such as those provided by RedHat for RHEL customers, as the filesystem layout may be different to the community RPMs. Please contact your support vendor for assistance. &repmgr; packages are available from the public 2ndQuadrant repository, and also the PostgreSQL community repository. The 2ndQuadrant repository is updated immediately after each &repmgr; release. Repository URL: https://dl.2ndquadrant.com/ Repository documentation: https://repmgr.org/docs/4.1/installation-packages.html#INSTALLATION-PACKAGES-REDHAT-2NDQ Repository URL: https://yum.postgresql.org/repopackages.php Repository documentation: https://yum.postgresql.org/ The two tables below list relevant information, paths, commands etc. for the &repmgr; packages on CentOS 7 (with systemd) and CentOS 6 (no systemd). Substitute the appropriate PostgreSQL major version number for your installation. For PostgreSQL 9.6 and lower, the CentOS packages use a mixture of 9.6 and 96 in various places to designate the major version; e.g. the package name is repmgr96, but the binary directory is /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data. From PostgreSQL 10, the first part of the version number (e.g. 10) is the major version, so there is more consistency in file/path/package naming (package repmgr10, binary directory /var/lib/pgsql/10/data). Package name example: repmgr10-4.0.4-1.rhel7.x86_64 Metapackage: (none) Installation command: yum install repmgr10 Binary location: /usr/pgsql-10/bin repmgr in default path: NO Configuration file location: /etc/repmgr/10/repmgr.conf Data directory: /var/lib/pgsql/10/data repmgrd service command: systemctl [start|stop|restart|reload] repmgr10 repmgrd service file location: /usr/lib/systemd/system/repmgr10.service repmgrd log file location: (not specified by package; set in repmgr.conf) Package name example: repmgr96-4.0.4-1.rhel6.x86_64 Metapackage: (none) Installation command: yum install repmgr96 Binary location: /usr/pgsql-9.6/bin repmgr in default path: NO Configuration file location: /etc/repmgr/9.6/repmgr.conf Data directory: /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data repmgrd service command: service [start|stop|restart|reload] repmgr-9.6 repmgrd service file location: /etc/init.d/repmgr-9.6 repmgrd log file location: /var/log/repmgr/repmgrd-9.6.log packages Debian/Ubuntu packages &repmgr; .deb packages are provided via the PostgreSQL Community APT repository, and are available for each community-supported PostgreSQL version, currently supported Debian releases, and currently supported Ubuntu LTS releases. &repmgr; packages are available from the PostgreSQL Community APT repository, which is updated immediately after each &repmgr; release. Repository URL: https://dl.2ndquadrant.com/ Repository documentation: https://repmgr.org/docs/4.1/installation-packages.html#INSTALLATION-PACKAGES-DEBIAN Repository URL: http://apt.postgresql.org/ Repository documentation: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt) The table below lists relevant information, paths, commands etc. for the &repmgr; packages on Debian 9.x ("Stretch"). Substitute the appropriate PostgreSQL major version number for your installation. See also for some specifics related to configuring the repmgrd daemon. Package name example: postgresql-10-repmgr Metapackage: repmgr-common Installation command: apt-get install postgresql-10-repmgr Binary location: /usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin repmgr in default path: Yes (via wrapper script /usr/bin/repmgr) Configuration file location: (not set by package) Data directory: /var/lib/postgresql/10/main PostgreSQL service command: systemctl [start|stop|restart|reload] postgresql@10-main repmgrd service command: systemctl [start|stop|restart|reload] repmgrd repmgrd service file location: /etc/init.d/repmgrd (defaults in: /etc/defaults/repmgrd) repmgrd log file location: (not specified by package; set in repmgr.conf) Instead of using the systemd service command directly, it's recommended to execute pg_ctlcluster (as root, either directly or via sudo), e.g.: pg_ctlcluster 10 main [start|stop|restart|reload] For pre-systemd systems, pg_ctlcluster can be executed directly by the postgres user. packages information for packagers We recommend patching the following parameters when building the package as built-in default values for user convenience. These values can nevertheless be overridden by the user, if desired. Configuration file location: the default configuration file location can be hard-coded by patching package_conf_file in configfile.c: /* packagers: if feasible, patch configuration file path into "package_conf_file" */ char package_conf_file[MAXPGPATH] = ""; See also: PID file location: the default repmgrd PID file location can be hard-coded by patching package_pid_file in repmgrd.c: /* packagers: if feasible, patch PID file path into "package_pid_file" */ char package_pid_file[MAXPGPATH] = ""; See also: