Hi,
> The idea is that we would be able to have multiple standby servers
> connecting to one primary, yes? It would be useful to have sync
> replication work that it must get an acknowledgement from at least one
> standby before it continues.
No, in my current patch, only one standby can perform WAL streaming.
Of course, Yes in the future (8.5?).
>
> Or do you think we would stream to just one standby, then use the
> archiver (primary or standby) to keep sending files to allow multiple
> additional standby nodes?
Interesting! and Yes, we can.
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
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