Stop repmgrd on manual standbys

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ and this project follows [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 - Preserve pgBackRest recovery options as one shell-safe argument during remote restore.
 - Preserve the complete pgBackRest command as the single `bash -lc` command string.
 - Run component rollback in local Ruby context instead of an SSHKit backend scope.
+- Explicitly stop SysV-backed repmgrd before disabling it on manual-failover standbys.
 
 ## 0.9.6 - 2026-08-20
 

lib/active_postgres/components/repmgr.rb

@@ -1121,7 +1121,8 @@ def update_postgres_configs_on_standby(host, version)
       def enable_repmgrd_if_configured(host, repmgr_config)
         if repmgr_config[:auto_failover] == false
           ssh_executor.execute_on_host(host) do
-            execute :sudo, 'systemctl', 'disable', '--now', 'repmgrd', raise_on_non_zero_exit: false
+            execute :sudo, 'systemctl', 'stop', 'repmgrd', raise_on_non_zero_exit: false
+            execute :sudo, 'systemctl', 'disable', 'repmgrd', raise_on_non_zero_exit: false
           end
           return
         end

test/repmgr_test.rb

@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ def test_manual_failover_policy_disables_repmgrd
     component.send(:enable_repmgrd_if_configured, 'standby.example.com', auto_failover: false)
 
     assert_equal [
-      [[:sudo, 'systemctl', 'disable', '--now', 'repmgrd'], { raise_on_non_zero_exit: false }]
+      [[:sudo, 'systemctl', 'stop', 'repmgrd'], { raise_on_non_zero_exit: false }],
+      [[:sudo, 'systemctl', 'disable', 'repmgrd'], { raise_on_non_zero_exit: false }]
     ], commands
   end