repmgr.conf location repmgr and repmgrd use a common configuration file, by default called repmgr.conf (although any name can be used if explicitly specified). repmgr.conf must contain a number of required parameters, including the database connection string for the local node and the location of its data directory; other values will be inferred from defaults if not explicitly supplied. See section for more details. The configuration file will be searched for in the following locations: a configuration file specified by the -f/--config-file command line option a location specified by the package maintainer (if repmgr as installed from a package and the package maintainer has specified the configuration file location) repmgr.conf in the local directory /etc/repmgr.conf the directory reported by pg_config --sysconfdir Note that if a file is explicitly specified with -f/--config-file, an error will be raised if it is not found or not readable, and no attempt will be made to check default locations; this is to prevent repmgr unexpectedly reading the wrong configuraton file.