repmgr/HISTORY

3.0.3   2015-10-
        Bugfix: have repmgrd terminate if monitored standby is no longer
          connected to upstream node (Ian)

3.0.2   2015-10-02
        Improve handling of --help/--version options; and improve help output (Ian)
        Improve handling of situation where logfile can't be opened (Ian)
        Always pass -D/--pgdata option to pg_basebackup (Ian)
        Bugfix: standby clone --force does not empty pg_xlog (Gianni)
        Bugfix: autofailover with reconnect_attempts > 1 (Gianni)
        Bugfix: ignore comments after values (soxwellfb)
        Bugfix: handle string values in 'node' parameter correctly (Gregory Duchatelet)
        Allow repmgr to be compiled with a newer libpq (Marco)
        Bugfix: call update_node_record_set_upstream() for STANDBY FOLLOW (Tomas)
        Update `repmgr --help` output (per Github report from renard)
        Update tablespace remapping in --rsync-only mode for 9.5 and later (Ian)
        Deprecate `-l/--local-port` option - the port can be extracted
          from the conninfo string in repmgr.conf (Ian)
        Add STANDBY UNREGISTER (Vik Fearing)
        Don't fail with error when registering master if schema already defined (Ian)
        Fixes to whitespace handling when parsing config file (Ian)

3.0.1   2015-04-16
        Prevent repmgrd from looping infinitely if node was not registered (Ian)
        When promoting a standby, have repmgr (not repmgrd) handle metadata updates (Ian)
        Re-use replication slot if it already exists (Ian)
        Prevent a test SSH connection being made when not needed (Ian)
        Correct monitoring table column names (Ian)

3.0     2015-03-27
        Require PostgreSQL 9.3 or later (Ian)
        Use `pg_basebackup` by default (instead of `rsync`) to clone standby servers (Ian)
        Use `pg_ctl promote` to promote a standby to primary
        Enable tablespace remapping using `pg_basebackup` (in PostgreSQL 9.3 with `rsync`) (Ian)
        Support cascaded standbys (Ian)
        "pg_bindir" no longer required as a configuration parameter (Ian)
        Enable replication slots to be used (PostgreSQL 9.4 and later (Ian)
        Command line option "--check-upstream-config" (Ian)
        Add event logging table and option to execute an external program when an event occurs (Ian)
        General usability and logging message improvements (Ian)
        Code consolidation and cleanup (Ian)

2.0.3   2015-04-16
        Add -S/--superuser option for witness database creation Ian)
        Add -c/--fast-checkpoint option for cloning (Christoph)
        Add option "--initdb-no-pwprompt" (Ian)

2.0.2   2015-02-17
        Add "--checksum" in rsync when using "--force" (Jaime)
        Use createdb/createuser instead of psql (Jaime)
        Fixes to witness creation and monitoring (wamonite)
        Use default master port if none supplied (Martín)
        Documentation fixes and improvements (Ian)

2.0.1   2014-07-16
        Documentation fixes and new QUICKSTART file (Ian)
        Explicitly specify directories to ignore when cloning (Ian)
        Fix log level for some log messages (Ian)
        RHEL/CentOS specfile, init script and Makefile fixes (Nathan Van Overloop)
        Debian init script and config file documentation fixes (József Kószó)
        Typo fixes (Riegie Godwin Jeyaranchen, PriceChild)

2.0stable 2014-01-30
        Documentation fixes (Christian)
        General refactoring, code quality improvements and stabilization work (Christian)
        Added proper daemonizing (-d/--daemonize) (Christian)
        Added PID file handling (-p/--pid-file) (Christian)
        New config option: monitor_interval_secs (Christian)
        New config option: retry_promote_interval (Christian)
        New config option: logfile (Christian)
        New config option: pg_bindir (Christian)
        New config option: pgctl_options (Christian)

2.0beta2 2013-12-19
        Improve autofailover logic and algorithms (Jaime, Andres)
        Ignore pg_log when cloning (Jaime)
        Add timestamps to log line in stderr (Christian)
        Correctly check wal_keep_segments (Jay Taylor)
        Add a ssh_options parameter (Jay Taylor)

2.0beta1 2012-07-27
        Make CLONE command try to make an exact copy including $PGDATA location (Cedric) 
        Add detection of master failure (Jaime)
        Add the notion of a witness server (Jaime)
        Add autofailover capabilities (Jaime)
        Add a configuration parameter to indicate the script to execute on failover or follow (Jaime)
        Make the monitoring optional and turned off by default, it can be turned on with --monitoring-history switch (Jaime)
        Add tunables to specify number of retries to reconnect to master and the time between them (Jaime)

1.2.0   2012-07-27
        Test ssh connection before trying to rsync (Cédric)
        Add CLUSTER SHOW command (Carlo)
        Add CLUSTER CLEANUP command (Jaime)
        Add function write_primary_conninfo (Marco)
        Teach repmgr how to get tablespace's location in different pg version (Jaime)
        Improve version message (Carlo)

1.1.1   2012-04-18
        Add --ignore-rsync-warning (Cédric)
        Add strnlen for compatibility with OS X (Greg)
        Improve performance of the repl_status view (Jaime)
        Remove last argument from log_err (Jaime, Reported by Jeroen Dekkers)
        Complete documentation about possible error conditions (Jaime)
        Document how to clean history (Jaime)

1.1.0   2011-03-09
        Make options -U, -R and -p not mandatory (Jaime)

1.1.0b1 2011-02-24
        Fix missing "--force" option in help (Greg Smith)
        Correct warning message for wal_keep_segments (Bas van Oostveen)
        Add Debian build/usage docs (Bas, Hannu Krosing, Cedric Villemain)
        Add Debian .deb packaging (Hannu)
        Move configuration data into a structure (Bas, Gabriele Bartolini)
        Make rsync options configurable (Bas)
        Add syslog as alternate logging destination (Gabriele)
        Change from using malloc to static memory allocations (Gabriele)
        Add debugging messages after every query (Gabriele)
        Parameterize schema name used for repmgr (Gabriele)
        Avoid buffer overruns by using snprintf etc. (Gabriele)
        Fix use of database query after close (Gabriele)
        Add information about progress during "standby clone" (Gabriele)
        Fix double free errors in repmgrd (Charles Duffy, Greg)
        Make repmgr exit with an error code when encountering an error (Charles)
        Standardize on error return codes, use in repmgrd too (Greg)
        Add [un]install actions/SQL like most contrib modules (Daniel Farina)
        Wrap all string construction and produce error on overflow (Daniel)
        Correct freeing of memory from first_wal_segment (Daniel)
        Allow creating recovery.conf file with a password (Daniel)
        Inform when STANDBY CLONE sees an unused config file (Daniel)
        Use 64-bit computation for WAL apply_lag (Greg)
        Add info messages for database and general work done (Greg)
        Map old verbose flag into a useful setting for the new logger (Greg)
        Document repmgrd startup restrictions and log info about them (Greg)

1.0.0   2010-12-05
        First public release