Hello, now the synchronous_standby_names can teach to ensure more
then one synchronous standbys. But the doc for it seems assuming
only one synchronous standby.

> There is no mechanism to enforce uniqueness. In case of
> duplicates one of the matching standbys will be considered as
> higher priority, though exactly which one is indeterminate.

The patch attatched edits the above to the following.

> There is no mechanism to enforce uniqueness. In case of
> duplicates some of the matching standbys will be considered as
> higher priority, though they are chosen in an indeterminate way.

Is this makes sense?

regards,

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index f9ba148..7b2edbe 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -3028,9 +3028,9 @@ include_dir 'conf.d'
         The name of a standby server for this purpose is the
         <varname>application_name</> setting of the standby, as set in the
         <varname>primary_conninfo</> of the standby's WAL receiver.  There is
-        no mechanism to enforce uniqueness. In case of duplicates one of the
-        matching standbys will be considered as higher priority, though
-        exactly which one is indeterminate.
+        no mechanism to enforce uniqueness. In case of duplicates some of the
+        matching standbys will be considered as higher priority, though they
+        are chosen in an indeterminate way.
         The special entry <literal>*</> matches any
         <varname>application_name</>, including the default application name
         of <literal>walreceiver</>.
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