While investigating Simon's complaint about my patch of a few days
ago, I discovered that synchronous replication appears to slow to a
crawl if fsync is turned off on the standby.
I'm not sure why this is happening or what the right behavior is in
this case, but I think some kind of adjustment is needed because the
current behavior is quite surprising.
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Robert Haas
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