repmgr 4.1 Now Available

2ndQuadrant today announced the release of repmgr 4.1.
[https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/repmgr/]

repmgr is the most popular tool for PostgreSQL replication and
failover management. It enhances and complements the built-in
replication capabilities in PostgreSQL, making it easy to set up and
manage standby servers, check replication status, and perform
administrative tasks such as switchover operations. The repmgrd daemon
provides automatic failover capability to maximize database uptime,
and can easily be integrated with other tools such as PgBouncer for
high application availability.

Packages are available via public RPM and APT repositories from
2ndQuadrant. Installation packages documentation is available here:
https://repmgr.org/docs/4.1/installation-packages.html

This release introduces the following configuration file changes:

- Default for log_level is now INFO producing additional informative
log output, without creating excessive additional log file volume, and
matches the setting assumed for examples in the documentation.
- recovery_min_apply_delay now accepts a minimum value of zero

repmgr 4.1 presents important usability enhancements, such as:

- Always exit with an error if an unrecognized command line option is
provided. This matches the behaviour of other PostgreSQL utilities
such as psql.
- Add -q/--quiet option to suppress non-error output.
- repmgr cluster show, repmgr node check and repmgr node status return
non-zero exit code if a node status issues is detected.
- Add --csv output option for repmgr cluster event.
- repmgr witness unregister can be run on any node, by providing the
ID of the witness node with --node-id.
- repmgr standby switchover will refuse to run if an exclusive backup
is taking place on the current primary.

For a detailed list of all repmgrd changes, enhancements, and bug
fixes, please read the complete release notes here:
https://repmgr.org/docs/4.1/release-4.1.0.html

We recommend upgrading to this version as soon as possible. This
release can be installed as a simple package upgrade from repmgr 4.x.

Source files can be downloaded here:
https://repmgr.org/download/repmgr-4.1.0.tar.gz and installation
instructions are available here:
https://repmgr.org/docs/4.1/installation.html

repmgr is distributed under GPL v3.

For more information, please send an email to info(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com

Monica Real Amores
Marketing & Communications
2ndQuadrant
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
monica(dot)realamores(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com | www.2ndquadrant.com