Version 1.3.0

New Features:

• Support for upcoming PoWA v5 new extension model (Julien Rouhaud)
• Support snapshot of per-database datasources (Julien Rouhaud)
• Support snapshot of per-database catalogs (Julien Rouhaud)
• Support on-demand snapshot of any remote server (Julien Rouhaud)
• Support on-demand catalog snapshot of any remote server (Julien Rouhaud)
• Add permission checking based on new PoWA predefine roles for on-demand request (Julien Rouhaud)
• Support any extension installed in any schema (Julien Rouhaud)
• Optionally emit logs using the server alias rather than the server hostname and port (Julien Rouhaud, thanks to Marc Cousin for the request)

Bugfixes:

• Redact the password (if provided) in the worker representation logs (Julien Rouhaud per report from Marc Cousin)
• Fix the logic to spread the activity on server start (Julien Rouhaud)
• Fix configuration file error handling (Julien Rouhaud)

Misc:

• Check for PoWA version incompatibility between remote servers and the repository server (Julien Rouhaud)

Version 1.2.0

New Features:

• Automatically detect hypopg on remort servers (Julien Rouhaud, thanks to github user MikhailSaynukov for the request)

Bugfixes:

• Fix sleep time calculation (Marc Cousin)
• Properly detect -Infinity as an unknown last snapshot (Julien Rouhaud)
• Properly handle error happening when retrieving the list of remote servers (Julien Rouhaud)
• Properly detect stop condition after checking if PoWA must be loaded (Julien Rouhaud)
• Close all thread's connections in case of uncatched error during snapshot (Marc Cousin)

Misc:

• Immediately exit the worker thread if PoWA isn't present or can't be loaded (Julien Rouhaud)
• Improve server list stdout logging when no server is found (Julien Rouhaud)
• Do PoWA extension sanity checks for the dedicated repo connection too (Julien Rouhaud)
• Fix compatibility with python 3.9 (Julien Rouhaud, per report from Christoph Berg)

Version 1.1.1

Bugfix:

• Make sure that repository connection is available when fetching the repository powa version (Julien Rouhaud, thanks to Adrien Nayrat for the report and testing the patch)

Version 1.1.0

New features:
- Avoid explicit "LOAD 'powa'" with poWA 4.1.0, so a superuser isn't required anymore when PoWA isn't in shared_preload_libraries (Julien
Rouhaud)
- Store postgres and handled extensions versions on repository server (Julien Rouhaud)

Bug fixes:
- Handle errors that might happen during snapshot (Julien Rouhaud)

Version 1.0.0

This is the first stable version.

New feature:

• Handle the new query_cleanup query that may be run after getting remote data.

Bugfix:

• Let workers quit immediately if they're asked to stop.

Version 0.0.3

Bugfix:

• Support standard_conforming_strings = off (Thanks to Milan Jurhan for the report)
• Better error message for remote servers lacking powa extension (Thomas
  Reiss and Julien Rouhaud)

Version 0.0.2

Bugfix:

• Ignore deactivated servers

Miscellaneous:

• Set lock_timeout to 2s for every pg connection
• Fully qualify all objects in SQL queries

Version 0.0.1

First version released

This is the first version of powa-collector, a simple multi-threaded python program that performs the snapshots for all the remote servers configured in a powa repository database.

See the README.md for more details about this tool.