pitrery

I am very pleased to announce the release of version 1.5 of pitrery. It comes with great features, here is the changelog:

• Force the checkpoint on pg_start_backup() when possible
• Support rsync for the base backup. tar remains the default with a new -s option for backup_pitr and the STORAGE configuration variable
• Save configuration files if they are outside of PGDATA
• Rename pitr_mgr to pitrery, with a symlink for backward compatibility
• Make the time based purge compatible with the count purge, allowing to purge backups based on age and keeping a minimum number of backups
• Make the old WAL purge better by comparing parts of the file name instead of the whole. Bash does not handle well the full file name when converted to a number (too big)
• Safely purge old .backup files. Always keep .history files
• Improve documentation
• Better check the input file in archive_xlog
• Use rsync to safely transfer to the remote host in archive_xlog
• Document compression tools options
• Add a verbose mode to list, with sizes and locations
• Allow to specify the oid of a tablespace when give path for relocation: -t oid:/new/path or -t name:/new/path is possible

The release is available in the downloads page.