On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The patch sets "*" as the default, so all standbys are synchronous by
>>> default.
>>>
>>> Would you prefer it if it was blank, meaning no standbys are
>>> synchronous, by default?
>>
>> I think * is a reasonable default.
>>
>
> Actually i would prefer to have standbys asynchronous by default...
> though is true that there will be no waits until i set
> synchronous_replication to on... 1) it could be confusing to see a
> SYNC standby in pg_stat_replication by default when i wanted all of
> them to be async, 2) also * will give priority 1 to all standbys so it
> doesn't seem like a very useful out-of-the-box configuration, better
> to make the dba to write the standby names in the order they want
Mmm, good points.
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