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
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