repmgr v5.1 released – April 13, 2020

repmgr is available via 2ndQuadrant’s YUM repository for the Red Hat family (RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora) and PGDG’s APT repository for Debian (please use the test repository for the Beta version – more details at the installation instruction link below). You can use standard yum and apt package managers for installing repmgr with your instance of PostgreSQL.

(repmgr requires PostgreSQL 9.3 or higher)

Click here to view detailed installation instructions using yum and apt

Click here to view detailed upgrading instructions

Click here to download the latest tarball

Click here to view the release notes

The images and explanation below represent some of the most common configurations of repmgr in production databases.

1 Primary + 1 Standby

Here, repmgr is configured on Standby for failover in case the Primary node fails.

1 Primary + 2 Standbys

Here, repmgr is configured on 2 Standby nodes for failover in case the Primary node fails. Additional Standby node is configured for High Availability (HA) so at least one Standby is still present after failover.

1 Primary + 3 Standbys + 1 Witness

Here, the Standby in Location B is a last resort in case Location A becomes entirely unavailable. The Witness server here ensures that in case of network interruption between the two locations, the Standby at Location B does not promote itself to Primary, i.e. prevents the Split Brain scenario.

repmgr is free and open-source software licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL) v3. This means you are free to use and modify repmgr as you see fit, however any modifications you make may only be distributed under the same terms. Click here for details.