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.
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Michael
