From cffa581488bcfb1bd93a05418625a4e5777fa9f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Tanayno <atanayno@gitlab.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 09:27:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about the necessity to restart pods

---
 doc/advanced/external-db/index.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/advanced/external-db/index.md b/doc/advanced/external-db/index.md
index 297a31a111..32ca833502 100644
--- a/doc/advanced/external-db/index.md
+++ b/doc/advanced/external-db/index.md
@@ -69,3 +69,7 @@ helm install gitlab gitlab/gitlab
   --set global.psql.password.secret=gitlab-postgresql-password
   --set global.psql.password.key=postgres-password
 ```
+
+After configuring the empty external database with the GitLab Helm chart,
+[restart GitLab](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/restart_gitlab.html#helm-chart-installations) by deleting all pods.
+Otherwise, some pods may still refer to the old database.
-- 
GitLab