- Amazon RDS - [Promoting a Read Replica to Be a Standalone DB Instance](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_ReadRepl.html#USER_ReadRepl.Promote)
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL - [Stop replication](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/postgresql/howto-read-replicas-portal#stop-replication)
- Other external PostgreSQL databases - save the script below in you secondary node, for example
`/tmp/geo_promote.sh`, and modify the connection parameters to match your
environment. Then, execute it to promote the replica:
```shell
#!/bin/bash
PG_SUPERUSER=postgres
# The path to your pg_ctl binary. You may need to adjust this path to match
# your PostgreSQL installation
PG_CTL_BINARY=/usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin/pg_ctl
# The path to your PostgreSQL data directory. You may need to adjust this
# path to match your PostgreSQL installation. You can also run
# `SHOW data_directory;` from PostgreSQL to find your data directory
PG_DATA_DIRECTORY=/etc/postgresql/10/main
# Promote the PostgreSQL database and allow read/write operations