By Mike Langdon, Nutanix Product Expert, Blue Medora You buy into hyperconverged for the promise of simple, scalable performance — and for the most part it delivers. But you&#rsquo;re not just plugging the servers into the wall and walking away. You have interactions with VMware hosts, VMs and datastores to think about, and that&#rsquo;s before

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What is the digital workspace? What will a digital workspace do for your IT organization and your business? Get a crash course on the secure digital workspaceand how to do it right from the start with a new VMware Special Edition of theSecure Digital Workspacefor Dummies, by our own experts Pam Takahama, Josue Fontanez and […]

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Fall is here! Winter is coming. And yes, I may already be on my third pumpkin spice latte today (feel free to judge). Nonetheless, I&#rsquo;m oh so happy to announce that as our air gets cooler, we&#rsquo;ve got some even cooler educational webcasts to help you learn more about vCloud Air (see what we did […]

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During the last few months we&#rsquo;ve heard from Rajiv Ramaswami, EVP and GM of Networking and Security, about how VMware NSX is driving cloud networking for our customers. In case you missed Rajiv&#rsquo;s videos, here&#rsquo;s a quick recap.   The Second Inning of a Nine-Inning Game: NSX Use Cases and the Networking Revolution Rajiv begins […]

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VMworld 2016 Europe is less than two weeks away! We wanted to make sure you knew about the learning opportunities available from the VMware Education Services team. We have four greatVMworld Education Breakout Sessionsplanned on topics including vSphere and Horizon troubleshooting. And back by popular demand will be our Theatre Sessions in the VMworld Education […]

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Greetings from the VMware Security Response Center! Today we released VMSA-2016-0015which documents an Important severity issue in VMware Horizon View. During internal discussions the most common question I have been asked about CVE-2016-7087 is why the issue has been classified as Important rather than Critical. The reason for this is after thorough investigation, it was […]

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Keeping busy business professionals productive is just one of the many reasons that savvy IT pros like you design data centers that provide a reliable, always-on user experience. But scaling up to meet seasonal demand, global expansion or an influx of new users can be an expensive, time-consuming, frown-inducing proposition. That&#rsquo;s why IT teams running […]

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If you’re eager to pursue Udacity’s self-driving car engineer nanodegree, it’s time to step on the gas. The online educator expected a couple thousand students to apply for its nine-month program, which begins on Oct. 13. It got more than 12,000 applicants. So, it began offering new installments monthly. But November and December are filling up […]

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Have code will travel. I recently returned from Vancouver, Canada, home of The Coalition, makers of Gears of War 4, one of the most important DirectX 12 titles released so far. My mission: Helping The Coalition carry on their incredible track record of producing visually stunning titles. As an NVIDIA developer technology engineer, I provide […]

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2ndQuadrant is proud to announce the release of repmgr version 3.2 which includes new features for Barman, replication cluster managing, standby cloning improvements, better integration of OS-level server commands, and other minor commands and improvements.

This release leverages improvements included with PostgreSQL 9.6 to provide support for switchover, a common administrative task where the roles of primary and standby server are swapped in a controlled manner to facilitate software and hardware maintenance.??

Note: repmgr 3.2 supports PostgreSQL 9.3 and later only.

What is repmgr?

repmgr is an open source package which greatly simplifies the process of setting up and managing replication using streaming replication within a cluster of PostgreSQL servers. Taking advantage of features introduced in PostgreSQL releases since 9.3, repmgr builds on PostgreSQL's core functionality to provide a smooth, user-friendly way of working with the complexities of replication and failover management in high-availability environments.

New features in repmgr 3.2

Barman Support

repmgr 3.2 provides enhanced integration with 2ndQuadrant's Barman backup and recovery manager. In particular, it is now possible to clone a standby from a Barman archive, rather than directly from a running database server. This means the server is not subjected to the I/O load caused by a backup, and there's no need to manage WAL retention on the database server. The standby can also use the Barman archive as a fallback source of WAL in case streaming replication is interrupted.??

Replication Cluster Monitoring

Usually, when working with more complex replication clusters spread over multiple locations, gaining an overview of connection status between nodes can be a tedious and time-consuming process. repmgr 3.2 provides two new commands which help with this, expanding the existing “repmgr cluster show”. You can read in depth about these commands in the README file.

Standby Cloning Improvements

In addition to the ability to clone directly from a Barman archive, various other improvements have been made to the standby cloning process. In particular, by default password-less SSH connection between servers is now optional and only needs to be provided for specific features.

Better Integration of OS Level Server Commands

By default, repmgr.conf will use PostgreSQL's standard pg_ctl utility to control a running PostgreSQL server. However, it may be better to use the operating system's service management system. To specify which service control commands are used, the following repmgr.conf configuration settings are available:?

• service_start_command
• service_stop_command
• service_restart_command
• service_reload_command
• service_promote_command

Read the formal release notes for information on other new commands, options, and improvements included in this release as well as upgrade instructions.

2ndQuadrant provides professional support services for repmgr — for more information, visit https://2ndquadrant.com/en/support/support-postgresql/.