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Revamp demoting active to standby (CrunchyData#3661)
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docs/content/architecture/disaster-recovery.md

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triggers the promotion of the current standby leader to a primary PostgreSQL instance. You can view
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this promotion in the PostgreSQL standby leader's (soon to be active leader's) logs.
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Once the standby cluster is promoted, the cluster with the original active
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PostgreSQL cluster can now be turned into a standby PostgreSQL cluster. This is
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done by deleting and recreating all PVCs for the cluster and reinitializing it
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as a standby using the backup repository. Being that this is a destructive action
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(i.e., data will only be retained if any Storage Classes and/or Persistent
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Volumes have the appropriate reclaim policy configured) a warning is shown
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when attempting to enable standby.
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The cluster will reinitialize from scratch as a standby, just
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like the original standby created above. Therefore any transactions
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written to the original standby should now replicate back to this cluster.
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Once the former standby cluster has been successfully promoted to an active PostgreSQL cluster,
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the original active PostgreSQL cluster can be safely [deleted]({{< relref "tutorial/delete-cluster.md" >}})
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and [recreated as a standby cluster]({{< relref "tutorial/disaster-recovery" >}}#standby-cluster).

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