From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:08:19 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Document that Log-Shipping Standby Servers cannot be upgraded by
X-Git-Tag: REL9_3_BETA1~1211
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f9951252dbd86391ab3a9bcba99f4e9f13e311a6;p=postgresql

Document that Log-Shipping Standby Servers cannot be upgraded by
pg_upgrade.

Backpatch to 9.2.
---

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml
index 30f4544197..cffcebb307 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml
@@ -517,6 +517,12 @@ psql --username postgres --file script.sql postgres
    <literal>-d /real-data-directory -o '-D /configuration-directory'</>.
   </para>
 
+  <para>
+   A Log-Shipping Standby Server (<xref linkend="warm-standby">) cannot
+   be upgraded because the server must allow writes.  The simplest way
+   is to upgrade the primary and use rsync to rebuild the standbys.
+  </para>
+
   <para>
    If you want to use link mode and you do not want your old cluster
    to be modified when the new cluster is started, make a copy of the