On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 02:04:03PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > You could just say something like: > > Since pg_receivewal does not apply WAL, you should not allow it to > become a synchronous standby when synchronous_commit = remote_apply. > If it does, it will appear to be a standby which never catches up, > which may cause commits to block. To avoid this, you should either > configure an appropriate value for synchronous_standby_names, or > specify an application_name for pg_receivewal that does not match it, > or change the value of synchronous_commit to something other than > remote_apply. > > I think that'd be a lot more useful than enumerating the total-failure > scenarios.
+1. Thanks for the suggestions! Your wording looks good to me. -- Michael
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