Re: synchronous_commit and remote_write

> The naming is not arbitrary. -1 to changing it as suggested.
> 
> It is as Aidan says, a state between receive and fsync, normally
> referred to as write.
> 
> Plus the word remote denotes it is on the standby, not the local master.
> 
> So both words have specific meaning, and IMHO clear meaning.

Clear to a postgres hacker, maybe.  Not at *all* clear to our general users.

The natural assumption is that "remote write" means that it's written to
disk on the remote. Which is not what it means.

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