BTW, What I'd like to see as a very first patch first is to change the current poll loops in walreceiver and walsender to, well, not poll. That's a requirement for synchronous replication, is very useful on its own, and requires a some design and implementation effort to get right. It would be nice to get that out of the way before/during we discuss the more user-visible behavior.
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