Re: [HACKERS] Clarification in pg10'spgupgrade.html step 10 (upgrading standby servers)

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 07:54:15PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Andreas,
> 
> * Andreas Joseph Krogh (andreas@visena.com) wrote:
> > I have to ask; Why not run pg_upgrade on standby, after verifying that it's in 
> > sync with primary and promoting it to primary if necessary and then making it 
> > standby again after pg_upgrade is finished?
> 
> I don't think that we could be guaranteed that the catalog tables would
> be the same on the replica as on the primary if they were actually
> created by pg_upgrade.

FYI, the other problem is that standby can't go into write mode or it
would diverge from the primary.

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