[check_postgres-announce] Version 2.8.0 released

[Greg Sabino Mullane]

http://bucardo.org/check_postgres/

I'm happy to announce that version 2.8.0 of check_postgres has now been
released. This version adds internationalization support, many bug fixes and
enhancements, a complete test suite, and four new actions:

disabled_triggers: checks on the number of disabled triggers in the database.
Triggers can be disabled with an ALTER TABLE command, but for most cases this
should be a very temporary event.

prepared_txns: checks on the maximum age of any prepared transactions. The use
of these is very rare, and is only associated with two-part commit, so for most
installations seeing a prepared transaction indicates a problem that should be
fixed. Unclosed prepared transactions, like an open regular transaction, will
prevent vacuum from doing its job completely.

new_version_cp: checks if the version of check_postgres you are running is the
latest one available. Versions consist of three numbers: major, minor, and
revision. If a minor revision is available, a warning is given. If a major or
minor upgrade is available, a critical is given.

new_version_pg: checks is a newer version of Postgres is available. This only
checks the revision, so that if you are running 8.1.11, it will warn you that a
newer version in the 8.1 series is available, and not bug you about 8.3.

Special thanks to the French translators: all messages are now available in
French if your environment variable (LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, or LC_ALL) is set to
'fr'. Other language translations are needed - patches welcome!

This version also has a complete infrastructure around it, rather than a simple
Perl script. Thus, the correct procedure for installing is to download and
unpack the tarball, and then run:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

The tests are very important, and it is highly encouraged that everyone using
check_postgres run the tests on their system to help flush out any problems. If
the tests do not pass for you, please send an email to check_postgres at nagios.org
describing the problem. Note that you may need to set the environment variable
PGBINDIR if the Postgres utilities are not in your path. The tests need initdb,
pg_ctl, pg_controldata, and psql.

-- 
Greg Sabino Mullane greg at endpoint.com 610-983-9073
End Point Corporation
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8

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