This release provides a bug fix for RHEL 5 and Centos 5 systems, or specifically systems using PostgreSQL 8.1 or older. On those systems one would have received the error:
Error: Could not start Service[postgresqld]: Execution of ‘/sbin/service postgresql start’ returned 1:
This bug is due to a new feature we had added in 2.1.0, whereby the `include` directive in `postgresql.conf` was not compatible. As a work-around we have added checks in our code to make sure systems running PostgreSQL 8.1 or older do not have this directive added.
#### Detailed Changes
2013-01-21 - Ken Barber <ken@bob.sh>
* Only install `include` directive and included file on PostgreSQL >= 8.2
This release is primarily a feature release, introducing some new helpful constructs to the module.
For starters, we've added the line `include 'postgresql_conf_extras.conf'` by default so extra parameters not managed by the module can be added by other tooling or by Puppet itself. This provides a useful escape-hatch for managing settings that are not currently managed by the module today.
We've added a new defined resource for managing your tablespace, so you can now create new tablespaces using the syntax:
postgresql::tablespace { 'dbspace':
location => '/srv/dbspace',
}
We've added a locale parameter to the `postgresql` class, to provide a default. Also the parameter has been added to the `postgresql::database` and `postgresql::db` defined resources for changing the locale per database:
postgresql::db { 'mydatabase':
user => 'myuser',
password => 'mypassword',
encoding => 'UTF8',
locale => 'en_NG',
}
There is a new class for installing the necessary packages to provide the PostgreSQL JDBC client jars:
class { 'postgresql::java': }
And we have a brand new defined resource for managing fine-grained rule sets within your pg_hba.conf access lists:
postgresql::pg_hba { 'Open up postgresql for access from 200.1.2.0/24':
type => 'host',
database => 'app',
user => 'app',
address => '200.1.2.0/24',
auth_method => 'md5',
}
Finally, we've also added Travis-CI support and unit tests to help us iterate faster with tests to reduce regression. The current URL for these tests is here: https://travis-ci.org/puppetlabs/puppet-postgresql. Instructions on how to run the unit tests available are provided in the README for the module.
A big thanks to all those listed below who made this feature release possible :-).
