Re: No mention of standby.signal in pg_ugprade docs - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: No mention of standby.signal in pg_ugprade docs
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Msg-id f0b2a275d5e1ba839cbef9e78eb63802c3c76b24.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to No mention of standby.signal in pg_ugprade docs  (Dan Stoner <dstoner@iris.washington.edu>)
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On Thu, 2021-07-15 at 14:39 -0400, Dan Stoner wrote:
> I noticed that  standby.signal is not mentioned anywhere in the pg_upgrade document.
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/pgupgrade.html
> 
> I had trouble the first time I tried to start my secondary because it didn't connect to the primary / start streaming
untilI touched the signal 
 
> file.  The signal file is obliterated during the rsync but there is no mention of putting it back or preserving it.

I think you are right.

I will incorporate that in my patch to improve the documentation:
https://www.postgr.es/m/22f129004bb66cd91e1dfd3345a9787f5039f3ae.camel%40cybertec.at

Yours,
Laurenz Albe




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