This needs to be carried out on the secondary (replica) node. Note that the commands executed here are different in the secondary node.

  1. Configure the REPMGR configuration file (default located on “/etc/repmgr/10/repmgr.conf”) by changing the configuration as follows: 
    node_id = 2 node_name = ‘N2’ conninfo = 'host=<LOCALIP> port=5432 user=repuser dbname=postgres password=<POSTGRES USER PASSWORD>' replication_type = 'physical' use_replication_slots = yes pg_bindir = '/usr/pgsql-10/bin'. failover = 'automatic' data_directory = '/var/lib/pgsql/10/data' promote_command = '/usr/pgsql-10/bin/repmgr standby promote -f /etc/repmgr/10/repmgr.conf --log-to-file' follow_command = '/usr/pgsql-10/bin/repmgr standby follow -f /etc/repmgr/10/repmgr.conf --log-to-file --upstream-node-id=%n' monitoring_history = yes monitor_interval_secs = 10 service_start_command = 'sudo systemctl start postgresql-10' service_stop_command = 'sudo systemctl start postgresql-10' service_restart_command = 'sudo systemctl restart postgresql-10' service_reload_command = 'sudo systemctl reload postgresql-10'

    After changing the above configurations, we need to initialize the replica node. This should be done by the linux postgres user except for the systemctl commands:

  2. Shutdown PostgreSQL (root):
    systemctl stop postgresql-10
  3. Delete the data directory (as it will be cloned later on):
    cd /var/lib/pgsql/10/data
    rm -rdf ** # Clone the data from the primary (postgres user): ## su – postgres@
    1. PGPASSWORD=<place postgres user password???**> /usr/pgsql-10/bin/repmgr -f /etc/repmgr/10/repmgr.conf -h <primary-ip> -U repuser -d postgres standby clone
    2. exit
  4. Start PostgreSQL (root):
    systemctl start postgresql-10
  5. Register the standby (postgres user):
    1. su - postgres
    2. /usr/pgsql-10/bin/repmgr -f /etc/repmgr/10/repmgr.conf standby register
    3. exit
  6. Ensure that the primary was registered by running the following commands:
    1. su - postgres
    2. /usr/pgsql-10/bin/repmgr -f /etc/repmgr/10/repmgr.conf cluster show
    3. exit