On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
* Andres Freund (andres@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: > That's why you should configure a second standby as another (candidate) > synchronous replica, also listed in synchronous_standby_names.
Perhaps we should stress in the docs that this is, in fact, the *only* reasonable mode in which to run with sync rep on?
I don't think it is the only reasonable way to run it. Most of the time that the master can't communicate with rep1, it is because of a network problem. So, the master probably can't talk to rep2 either, and adding the second one doesn't really get you all that much in terms of availability.