From: Robert Haas Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:25:04 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Minor sync rep documentation improvements. X-Git-Tag: REL9_1_ALPHA5~83 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f0f3617135854281bdb79179a895c102d54cb95b;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git Minor sync rep documentation improvements. - Make the name of the ID tag for the GUC entry match the GUC name. - Clarify that synchronous_replication waits for xlog flush, not receipt. - Mention that synchronous_replication won't wait if max_wal_senders=0. --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml index a4c1e84ad8a..b774fa617c2 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml @@ -2045,9 +2045,11 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF; for confirmation of successful replication. That delay will increase depending upon the physical distance and network activity between primary and standby. The commit wait will last until a - reply from the current synchronous standby indicates it has received - the commit record of the transaction. Synchronous standbys must - already have been defined (see ). + reply from the current synchronous standby indicates it has written + the commit record of the transaction to durable storage. This + parameter has no effect if + is empty or + is zero. This parameter can be changed at any time; the @@ -2062,7 +2064,7 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF; - + synchronous_standby_names (string) synchronous_standby_names configuration parameter