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How to Automate PostgreSQL 12 Replication and Failover with repmgr – Part 2

February 11, 2020/41 Comments/in PostgreSQL, repmgr, Sadeq's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Sadequl Hussain

This is the second installment of a two-part series on 2ndQuadrant’s repmgr, an open-source high-availability tool for PostgreSQL. In the first part, we set up a three-node PostgreSQL 12 cluster along with a “witness” node. The cluster consisted of a primary node and two standby nodes. The cluster and the witness node were hosted in […]

How to Automate PostgreSQL 12 Replication and Failover with repmgr – Part 1

January 24, 2020/38 Comments/in PostgreSQL, repmgr, Sadeq's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Sadequl Hussain

repmgr is an open-source toolset from 2ndQuadrant, a leading specialist in PostgreSQL-related technologies and services. The product is used to automate, enhance, and manage PostgreSQL streaming replication. Streaming replication in PostgreSQL has been around since version 9.0. Natively setting up and managing streaming replication involves a number of manual steps which includes: Configuring replication parameters […]

Replication configuration changes in PostgreSQL 12

October 7, 2019/0 Comments/in Ian's PlanetPostgreSQL, repmgr /by Ian Barwick

Historically, PostgreSQL’s replication configuration has been managed via a configuration parameters stored in a dedicated configuration file, recovery.conf, which has been present in PostgreSQL since the introduction of archive recovery in PostgreSQL 8.0. One of the major changes in PostgreSQL 12, co-authored by 2ndQuadrant is the replacement of recovery.conf and the conversion of recovery.conf parameters […]

repmgr 3.2 is here with Barman support and Brand New High Availability features

October 10, 2016/0 Comments/in Ian's PlanetPostgreSQL, repmgr /by Ian Barwick

repmgr 3.2 has recently been released with a number of enhancements, particularly support for 2ndQuadrant’s Barman archive management server, additional cluster monitoring functionality and improvements to the standby cloning process. One aim of this release is to remove the requirement to set up passwordless SSH between servers, which means when using repmgr’s standard functionality to […]

Announcing repmgr 2.0

March 19, 2014/0 Comments/in Christian's PlanetPostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, repmgr /by Christian Kruse

Version 2.0 of repmgr, Replication Manager for PostgreSQL clusters, has been released. This release introduces a new experimental feature, autofailover. With autofailover repmgr is able to automatically promote a standby and let the other standbys follow the new master, without interaction of the DBA. It also adds a lot of bug fixes and several new […]

Announcing repmgr 2.0RC2

March 3, 2014/0 Comments/in Christian's PlanetPostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, repmgr /by Christian Kruse

Version 2.0RC2 of repmgr, Replication Manager for PostgreSQL clusters, has been released. This release introduces a new experimental feature, autofailover. With autofailover repmgr is able to automatically promote a standby and let the other standbys follow the new master, without interaction of the DBA. It also adds a lot of bug fixes and several new […]

Announcing repmgr 2.0RC1

February 7, 2014/0 Comments/in Christian's PlanetPostgreSQL, repmgr /by Christian Kruse

Version 2.0RC1 of repmgr, Replication Manager for PostgreSQL clusters, has been released. This release introduces a new experimental feature, autofailover. With autofailover repmgr is able to automatically promote a standby and let the other standbys follow the new master, without interaction of the DBA. It also adds a lot of bug fixes and several new […]

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How to Automate PostgreSQL 12 Replication and Failover with repmgr – Part 2

How to Automate PostgreSQL 12 Replication and Failover with repmgr – Part 1

Replication configuration changes in PostgreSQL 12

repmgr 3.2 is here with Barman support and Brand New High Availability features

Announcing repmgr 2.0

Announcing repmgr 2.0RC2

Announcing repmgr 2.0RC1

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