repmgr standby promote repmgr standby promote repmgr standby promote promote a standby to a primary Promotes a standby to a primary if the current primary has failed. This command requires a valid repmgr.conf file for the standby, either specified explicitly with -f/--config-file or located in a default location; no additional arguments are required. If the standby promotion succeeds, the server will not need to be restarted. However any other standbys will need to follow the new server, by using ; if repmgrd is active, it will handle this automatically. $ repmgr -f /etc/repmgr.conf standby promote NOTICE: promoting standby to primary DETAIL: promoting server "node2" (ID: 2) using "pg_ctl -l /var/log/postgres/startup.log -w -D '/var/lib/postgres/data' promote" server promoting DEBUG: setting node 2 as primary and marking existing primary as failed NOTICE: STANDBY PROMOTE successful DETAIL: server "node2" (ID: 2) was successfully promoted to primary A standby_promote event notification will be generated.