> Might it not be true that anybody unfamiliar would be confused and that this
> is a bit of a straw man?
[...]
> If my application assumes that it can commit to one server, and then read
> back the commit from another server, and my application breaks as a result,
> it's because I didn't understand the problem. Even if PostgreSQL didn't use
> the word "synchronous replication", I could still be confused. I need to
> understand the problem no matter what words are used.
That is certainly true. But there is value in choosing words which
elucidate the situation as much as possible.
...Robert