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Technical Update for EDB Postgres Failover Manager 3.4

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This article was originally published on January 28, 2019

Technical Update
 EDB Postgres Failover Manager 3.4

WHAT’S NEW
This update is notifying you of a new software release, EDB Postgres Failover Manager (EFM) version 3.4. Failover Manager provides high availability infrastructure for EDB Postgres clusters. Failover Manager monitors the members of a Postgres cluster, identifies and verifies database failures quickly and reliably, and if needed promotes a standby node to become the cluster master and issues alerts.
 
Highlights of this release include:
  • New property to treat all master shutdowns as potential failures - This helps ensure that accidental shutdowns result in a failover.
  • Retry VIP checks during promotion - This feature helps make sure failover still happens even if an isolated master does not release the VIP before the rest of the cluster promotes.
  • Exit notifications now at WARNING level - All agent exit notifications, including failures to start, are now sent with WARNING level instead of INFO.
Defects corrected in this update:
  • Add retry for standby that can reach VIP before promoting. (776029)
  • Enable failover for graceful master shutdown (735146)
  • EFM should send WARNING notification when agent fails to start (809122)
TELL ME MORE
For more details, please review the Failover Manager documentation:
https://www.enterprisedb.com/resources/edb-product-documentation/edb-failover-manager-34
 

IS THIS UPDATE FOR ME?
This announcement is for EDB customers who have a current database subscription for EDB Postgres Standard or EDB Postgres Enterprise and are either currently using or are interested in deploying EDB Failover Manager.
 

HOW TO GET THE UPDATE AND APPLY IT
This update is available as an RPM package that can be downloaded from the yum.enterprisedb.com repository. To setup your credentials and gain access to the yum repository, please submit a request: https://www.enterprisedb.com/repository-access-request 

TROUBLESHOOTING
If you experience any problems installing the new software please contact Technical Support at:
Email:  support@enterprisedb.com
Phone: US: +1-732-331-1320 or 1-800-235-5891
UK: +44-2033719820
Brazil: +55-2139581371
India: +91-20-66449612

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