Ha! It seems I indeed had it the other way around. I suppose that's what happens when writing a patch late at night. Somewhat ironically I did have the other correct in my Git commit message.
Attached is an updated version of the patch that corrects the order in the documentation. Yorick
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml index 51359d6236..434afe5d43 100644 *** a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml --- b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml *************** *** 2098,2104 **** LOG: database system is ready to accept read only connections be equal to or greater than the value on the primary. If these parameters are not set high enough then the standby will refuse to start. Higher values can then be supplied and the server ! restarted to begin recovery again. These parameters are: <itemizedlist> <listitem> --- 2098,2108 ---- be equal to or greater than the value on the primary. If these parameters are not set high enough then the standby will refuse to start. Higher values can then be supplied and the server ! restarted to begin recovery again. If you want to increase these values you ! should do so on any standby servers first, before applying the changes to ! the primary. If you instead want to decrease these values you should do so ! on the primary first, before applying the changes to any standby servers. ! These parameters are: <itemizedlist> <listitem>
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