Postmodern

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Tools for managing PostgreSQL databases.

Installation

[sudo] gem install postmodern

As a system utility, this assumes that you are installing the gem into the system's ruby, however that is installed.

Usage

WAL archives

The wal archiving scripts packaged in this gem are intended to serve as wrappers for YOUR archiving mechanism.

In postgresql.conf

archive_command = 'postmodern archive --path %p --filename %f'

In recovery.conf

restore_command = 'postmodern restore --path %p --filename %f'

By default these scripts will do nothing. With the presence of local scripts available in the path, the following variables will be exported to the environment and the local scripts called (with arguments preserved):

ENV['WAL_ARCHIVE_PATH'] = path
ENV['WAL_ARCHIVE_FILE'] = filename

Local scripts can be written in any language. They should be able access the relevant arguments either as $1, $2 or using the variables listed above.

archive will attempt to call a postmodern_archive.local script. restore will attempt to call a postmodern_restore.local script.

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( http://github.com//postmodern/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request