Set to true to invoke a replica failover to the DR replica. As part of replica failover, the promote operation attempts to add the original primary instance as a replica of the promoted DR replica when the original primary instance comes back online. If set to false or not specified, then the original primary instance becomes an independent Cloud SQL primary instance.
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation.
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