The wording changed here comes from
991bfe11d28a, when the only way to
trigger a promotion was with a trigger file. There are more options to
achieve this operation these days, like the SQL function pg_promote() or
the command `pg_ctl promote`, so it is confusing to assume that only a
trigger file is able to do the work.
Note also that promote_trigger_file has been removed as of
cd4329d9393f
in 16~.
Author: Shinya Kato
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
201b08ea29aa61f96162080e75be503c@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 12
later disconnected, the standby goes back to step 1 and tries to
restore the file from the archive again. This loop of retries from the
archive, <filename>pg_wal</filename>, and via streaming replication goes on until the server
- is stopped or failover is triggered by a trigger file.
+ is stopped or is promoted.
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