Commit a45c5e18 authored by Ian Baum's avatar Ian Baum Committed by Achilleas Pipinellis

Add note to GEO documentation about database upgrade

* Point to the omnibus documentation for how to upgrade the cluster
* Document how to disable the upgrade procedure
parent 29662cdc
......@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ all you need to do is update GitLab itself:
the tracking database is enabled.
1. [Test](#check-status-after-updating) **primary** and **secondary** nodes, and check version in each.
## Upgrading to GitLab 12.1
By default, GitLab 12.1 will attempt to automatically upgrade the embedded PostgreSQL server to 10.7 from 9.6. Please see [the omnibus documentation](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/database.html#upgrading-a-geo-instance) for the recommended procedure.
This can be temporarily disabled by running the following before ugprading:
```sh
sudo touch /etc/gitlab/disable-postgresql-upgrade
```
## Upgrading to GitLab 10.8
Before 10.8, broadcast messages would not propagate without flushing the cache on the **secondary** nodes. This has been fixed in 10.8, but requires one last cache flush on each **secondary** node:
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