Most tests are working now. What's not working:
1) --target-resume option fails because pause_on_recovery setting was removed. Need to implement to the new 9.5 option and make that work with older versions in a consistent way.
2) No tests for the new .partial WAL segments that can be generated on timeline switch.
* Major refactoring of the protocol layer to support this work.
* Fixed protocol issue that was preventing ssh errors (especially connect) from being logged.
On some systems the JSON->encode() function was adding a linefeed and on others it was not. This was causing regression test failures in in the test logs and may have also been inconvenient for users.
* Removed dependency on CPAN packages for multi-threaded operation. While it might not be a bad idea to update the threads and Thread::Queue packages, it is no longer necessary.
* Added vagrant test configurations for Ubuntu 12.04 and CentOS 6.
* Modified wait backoffs to use a Fibonacci sequence rather than geometric. This will make then grow less aggressively while still giving reasonable wait times.
* More options for regression tests and improved code to run in a variety of environments.
* Removed pg_backrest_remote and added the functionality to pg_backrest as remote command.
* Added file and directory syncs to the File object for additional safety during backup/restore and archiving. Suggested by Andres Freund.
* Support for Perl 5.10.1 and OpenSSH 5.3 which are default for CentOS/RHEL 6. Found by Eric Radman.
* Improved error message when backup is run without archive_command set and without --no-archive-check specified. Found by Eric Radman.
* Moved version number out of the VERSION file to Version.pm to better support packaging. Suggested by Michael Renner.
* Replaced IPC::System::Simple and Net::OpenSSH with IPC::Open3 to eliminate CPAN dependency for multiple distros.
Replaced IPC::System::Simple and Net::OpenSSH with IPC::Open3 to eliminate CPAN dependency for multiple distros. Using open3 will also be used for local processes so it make sense to switch now.
Also stopped replacing FORMAT number which explains the large number of test log changes. FORMAT should change very rarely and cause test log failures when it does.
More separation of the protocol and remote layers than was done in issue #106.
Settings are passed to the remote via command-line parameters rather than in the protocol.