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Discussion on: Is the database working as expected?

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Andrew Brown πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

RDS DB Snapshot and then upgrade?

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rhymes

What Heroku's upgrade procedure essentially does it the following: create a follower, upgrade, switch over the follower as main DB

The downtime is required to disable processes that write to the main DB while the follower finalizes the sync and upgrades

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Ben Halpern

This was our process, pretty straightforward.

devcenter.heroku.com/articles/upgr...

Still happy it all worked as expected.