be more permissive with standbys (#842)

* be more permissive with standbys
* reflect feedback and updated docs
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Felix Kunde
2020-02-24 15:14:14 +01:00
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@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ switchover (planned failover) of the master to the Pod with new minor version.
The switch should usually take less than 5 seconds, still clients have to
reconnect.
Major version upgrades are supported via [cloning](user.md#clone-directly). The
new cluster manifest must have a higher `version` string than the source cluster
and will be created from a basebackup. Depending of the cluster size, downtime
in this case can be significant as writes to the database should be stopped and
all WAL files should be archived first before cloning is started.
Major version upgrades are supported via [cloning](user.md#how-to-clone-an-existing-postgresql-cluster).
The new cluster manifest must have a higher `version` string than the source
cluster and will be created from a basebackup. Depending of the cluster size,
downtime in this case can be significant as writes to the database should be
stopped and all WAL files should be archived first before cloning is started.
Note, that simply changing the version string in the `postgresql` manifest does
not work at present and leads to errors. Neither Patroni nor Postgres Operator