Re: [HACKERS] Logical replication existing data copy

On 2017-03-24 10:45, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> 
> However one minor observation - as Michael Banck noted - the elapsed
> time for slave to catch up after running:
> 
> $ pgbench -c8 -T600 bench
> 
> on the master was (subjectively) much longer than for physical
> streaming replication. Is this expected?
> 

I think you probably want to do (on the slave) :
  alter role <you role> set synchronous_commit = off;

otherwise it's indeed extremely slow.