We recommend installing repmgr using the available packages for your system.
repmgr RPM packages for RedHat/CentOS variants and Fedora are available from the 2ndQuadrant public repository; see following section for details.
Currently the 2ndQuadrant public repository provides support for RedHat/CentOS versions 5, 6 and 7. Support for version 8 is available via the PGDG repository; see below for details.
RPM packages for repmgr are also available via Yum through the PostgreSQL Global Development Group (PGDG) RPM repository (https://yum.postgresql.org/). Follow the instructions for your distribution (RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, etc.) and architecture as detailed there. Note that it can take some days for new repmgr packages to become available via the this repository.
repmgr RPM packages are designed to be compatible with the community-provided PostgreSQL packages and 2ndQuadrant's 2ndQPostgres. They may not work with vendor-specific packages such as those provided by RedHat for RHEL customers, as the PostgreSQL filesystem layout may be different to the community RPMs. Please contact your support vendor for assistance.
See also FAQ entry Compatability with third party vendor packages.
For more information on the package contents, including details of installation paths and relevant service commands, see the appendix section CentOS packages.
2ndQuadrant provides a dedicated yum
public repository for 2ndQuadrant software,
including repmgr. We recommend using this for all future repmgr releases.
General instructions for using this repository can be found on its homepage. Specific instructions for installing repmgr follow below.
Installation
Locate the repository RPM for your PostgreSQL version from the list at: https://dl.2ndquadrant.com/
Install the repository definition for your distribution and PostgreSQL version (this enables the 2ndQuadrant repository as a source of repmgr packages).
For example, for PostgreSQL 11 on CentOS, execute:
curl https://dl.2ndquadrant.com/default/release/get/11/rpm | sudo bash
For PostgreSQL 9.6 on CentOS, execute:
curl https://dl.2ndquadrant.com/default/release/get/9.6/rpm | sudo bash
Verify that the repository is installed with:
sudo yum repolist
The output should contain two entries like this:
2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg11/7/x86_64 2ndQuadrant packages (PG11) for 7 - x86_64 18 2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg11-debug/7/x86_64 2ndQuadrant packages (PG11) for 7 - x86_64 - Debug 8
Install the repmgr version appropriate for your PostgreSQL version (e.g. repmgr10):
sudo yum install repmgr11
For packages for PostgreSQL 9.6 and earlier, the package name does not contain
a period between major and minor version numbers, e.g.
repmgr96.
To determine the names of available packages, execute:
yum search repmgr
Compatibility with PGDG Repositories
The 2ndQuadrant repmgr yum repository packages use the same definitions and file system layout as the main PGDG repository.
Normally yum will prioritize the repository with the most recent repmgr version. Once the PGDG repository has been updated, it doesn't matter which repository the packages are installed from.
To ensure the 2ndQuadrant repository is always prioritised, install yum-plugin-priorities
and set the repository priorities accordingly.
Installing a specific package version
To install a specific package version, execute yum --showduplicates list
for the package in question:
[root@localhost ~]# yum --showduplicates list repmgr11 Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp * epel: nrt.edge.kernel.org * extras: ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp * updates: ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp Installed Packages repmgr11.x86_64 4.4.0-1.rhel7 @pgdg11 Available Packages repmgr11.x86_64 4.2-1.el7 2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg11 repmgr11.x86_64 4.2-2.el7 2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg11 repmgr11.x86_64 4.3-1.el7 2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg11 repmgr11.x86_64 4.4-1.el7 2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg11
then append the appropriate version number to the package name with a hyphen, e.g.:
[root@localhost ~]# yum install repmgr11-4.3-1.el7
Installing old packages
See appendix Installing old package versions for details on how to retrieve older package versions.
.deb packages for repmgr are available from the PostgreSQL Community APT repository (https://apt.postgresql.org/). Instructions can be found in the APT section of the PostgreSQL Wiki (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt).
For more information on the package contents, including details of installation paths and relevant service commands, see the appendix section Debian/Ubuntu packages.
2ndQuadrant provides a public apt repository for 2ndQuadrant software, including repmgr.
General instructions for using this repository can be found on its homepage. Specific instructions for installing repmgr follow below.
Installation
Install the repository definition for your distribution and PostgreSQL version (this enables the 2ndQuadrant repository as a source of repmgr packages) by executing:
curl https://dl.2ndquadrant.com/default/release/get/deb | sudo bash
This will automatically install the following additional packages, if not already present:
lsb-releaseapt-transport-https
Install the repmgr version appropriate for your PostgreSQL version (e.g. repmgr11):
sudo apt-get install postgresql-11-repmgr
For packages for PostgreSQL 9.6 and earlier, the package name includes
a period between major and minor version numbers, e.g.
postgresql-9.6-repmgr.
Installing old packages
See appendix Installing old package versions for details on how to retrieve older package versions.