On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> btw, i guess we should be defaulting to asynchronous standbys (ie:
> synchronous_commit=local)
By default, synchronous_standby_names is empty, which makes
synchronous_commit=on equivalent to synchronous_commit=local. So I
think the current default is good, because it means you only need to
change ONE parameter to switch from async rep to sync rep (namely,
synchronous_standby_names).
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