On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 06:55:18 -0500 Rita <rmorgan466@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for the response. > I am using Postgresql 11. > I want something simple and I have a strong preference toward using stock > tools. After the promotion and the original master comes online, I was > thinking of doing a pg_basebackup to sync. Any thoughts about that? If you can afford that, this is the cleanest and easiest procedure you could find. Note that pg_basebackup need an empty PGDATA, so it will have to transfert the whole instance from new promoted primary to the original one. Regards,