Re: streaming replication breaks horribly if master crashes

On 6/16/10 1:26 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Similarly with synchronous_commit=off, I believe
> that the next checkpoint will still fsync WAL, but the lag might be
> long.

That's not a showstopper.  Just tell people that having synch_commit=off
on the master might increase the lag to the slave, and leave it alone.

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