Document pg_bindir

[agentgt]

I'm not quite sure how my system upgraded to the latest repmgr but apparently pg_bindir has to be explicitly set.

It would be nice if the example documentation and configuration show that new config variable or maybe just have pg_bindir take the default value of /usr/bin as a sensible default otherwise I have a feeling almost every repmgr upgrade is going to break.

[martinmarques]

How did your repmgr installation upgrade? Are you using yum or apt?
If that's the case, where does the packaging system get repmgr from?
Logs would be nice (yum.log or apt/history.log).

[agentgt]

I think because of the whole xen and shellshock security issues rackspace did some auto upgrading. I took a look at the logs and for some reason I don't see an apt (ubuntu) update.

Regardless it should probably still be put in the documentation as I had to go look in the code to make sure what pg_bindir was. Or maybe there is doc for that configuration and I missed it?

[mverwijs]

+1 For me.

  postgres@testdb01:~$ export pg_bindir=/usr/bin
  postgres@testdb01:~$ repmgr -f /etc/repmgr.conf master register
  [2014-11-12 21:30:13] [ERROR] pg_bindir config value not found. Check the configuration file.

/me looks at the release notes. Ah.

• New config option: pg_bindir

After adding "pg_bindir='/usr/bin'" it works.

[SOLDIERz]

Where you add "pg_bindir='/usr/bin'" ?

[SOLDIERz]

Okay get it! You need to add it in repmgr.conf like:

#for centos

pg_bindir='/usr/pgsql-9.3/bin'

[ibarwick]

FYI this issue has been resolved in repmgr 3.0, and repmgr will use the default path if pg_bindir isn't provided. There's also a repmgr command line -b/--pg_bindir to provide an explicit path if needed.