REPMGR - change reconnect_attempts and reconnect_interval not working

Question

I configured PostgreSQL automatic failover with REPMGR. But, in my simulation the sleeping time is 1 second for each reconnect attempt:

If I consult official documentation the default value to reconnect interval is 10 seconds.

#reconnect_interval=10 # Interval between attempts to reconnect to an unreachable # primary (or other upstream node)

I tried to change values of reconnect attempts and interval in repmgr.conf and restart service of repmgr and use "repmgr standby register --force" but doesn't work.

My REPMGR.CONF

node_id = 2
node_name = 'PGCluster02'
data_directory='/var/lib/postgresql/12/main'
conninfo = 'host=PGCluster02 port=1010 user=my_repmgr dbname=dbrepmgr connection_timeout=2'
use_replication_slots=1
reconnect_attempts=30
reconnect_interval=10
failover=automatic
promote_command='/usr/bin/repmgr standby promote -f /etc/repmgr.conf --log-to-file'
follow_command='/usr/bin/repmgr standby follow -f /etc/repmgr.conf --log-to-file --upstream-node-id=%n'

Environment

PostgreSQL Version: 12.5
REPMGR Version: 5.2
Debian version: 10

Other tools in my environment are Barman (another VM) and PGBouncer (current VM)

How can I change the reconnect interval to 10 or 15 seconds? Anyone can help me? I want to put my failover time to 5 minutes.

Thank you!!

Answer 1

I had the same problem, it's already solved:

https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/repmgr/issues/673

Issue has been reproduced and a fix applied, which will be in the upcoming 5.2.1 release.