• Add wait option to PostgresNode.start() (PR #45);
• PostgresNode.reload() now returns self;
• Add support for replication slots (PR #41);

• New dependency: psutil;

• New properties:

  • child_processes - list of ProcessProxy objects representing PostgreSQL processes,
  • auxiliary_processes - subset of child_processes, represents auxiliary processes (e.g. autovacuum),
  • auxiliary_pids - dict of { ProcessType : PID } pairs,
  • source_walsender - available on replica: represents master’s walsender;

• New context manager scoped_config(): temporary change GlobalConfig;

• Testgres is able to provide unique system ids for cached instances (see #35);

• Temp dirs use tgs_ as prefix;

• Improved pgbench API (see pgbench_run() etc);
• Set allow_streaming=True in init() and default_conf() by default;
• New option unix_sockets=True in init() and default_conf();
• Fixed base_dir ignore if provided base_dir does not exist (#31);
• StartNodeException now includes last N lines of postgresql.log;
• Improved exception handling (using six.raise_from);
• Auto name generation for PostgresNode (see generate_app_name);
• Provide compatibility mode for execute(), psql(), safe_psql() and poll_query_until() methods (see positional_args_hack);

apply --auth-local and --auth-host params passed to initdb in PostgresNode.init();

• use max_attempts=0 (infinite) by default in poll_query_until();
• fix support for utf-8 (non-ascii symbols);
• improved error handling;
• don’t install enum34 on python 3.4+.

• introduced default_conf();
• don’t remove base_dir if it was provided by user;

• introduced TestgresConfig;
• add log_statement='all' parameter to default_conf();

• bugfix: pass allow_streaming to default_conf();
• allow using PG_BIN env instead of PG_CONFIG;

• fix get_control_data();
• fix default params of default_conf();
• remove everything on cleanup() by default;
• remove cached initdb dir by default;

use commit=True by default in PostgresNode.execute()