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repmgr
C2012–2025
EnterpriseDB / repmgr

repmgr

A lightweight replication manager for PostgreSQL (Postgres)

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What it is

A lightweight replication manager for PostgreSQL (Postgres)

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-08-16 00:16:47 UTC to 2025-01-14 15:55:19 UTC.

01232012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
intellectable·Oct 25, 2015
For replication instances run in a master-replica setup using Streaming Replication try: http://www.repmgr.org/ repmgr is an open-source tool suite to manage replication and failover in a cluster of PostgreSQL servers. It enhances PostgreSQL's built-in hot-standby capabilities with tools to set up standby servers, monitor replication, and perform administrative tasks such as failover or manual switchover operations. repmgr has provided advanced support for PostgreSQL's built-in replication mechanisms since they were introduced in 9.0, and repmgr 2.0 supports all PostgreSQL versions from 9.0 to 9.4. https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/repmgr src: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/wha... For Sharding try: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha... http://rob.conery.io/2014/05/29/a-better-id-generator-f
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or-po... For clustering try: https://github.com/smbambling/pgsql_ha_cluster/wiki/Building... https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Replication,_Clustering,_an... I too wish there existed a nice dashboard db management tool like the ones Rethinkdb and Couchbase provide out of the box.
In What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases: Part II
Erwin·Mar 23, 2015
I asked a few people that at the excellent pgnordic conference and got some hand-waving about how repmgr fixes everything: https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/repmgr/blob/master/QUICKSTART... Having tried that out, I didn't find it particular user friendly compared to the various fancy NoSQL database where it's just something like... database-server --connect the_master:12324 -- and you've got your cluster even with automatic replication of data depending on your sharding rules. I suppose that ACID-SQL makes it harder to set this up reliably. Is there one of the commercial things like EnterpriseDB that fixes that? Effortless, reliably clustering with a nice status that says: slave2 is 95% sync'ed with master1 ETA 2 hours.
In pg_rewind in PostgreSQL 9.5

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