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README: clarify "switchover" definition
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- `switchover`
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- `switchover`
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In certain circumstances, such as hardware or operating system maintenance,
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In certain circumstances, such as hardware or operating system maintenance,
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it's necessary to take a primary server offline; in this case a controlled
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it's desirable to promote a suitable standby to primary, and demote the current
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switchover is necessary, whereby a suitable standby is promoted and the
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primary to a standby role in a controlled way. This enables work to be carried
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existing primary removed from the replication cluster in a controlled manner.
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out on the former primary without interrupting the replication cluster.
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The `repmgr` command line client provides this functionality.
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The `repmgr` command line client provides this functionality with the
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`repmgr standby switchover` command.
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### repmgr user and metadata
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### repmgr user and metadata
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