While investigating Simon's complaint about my patch of a few days ago, I discovered that synchronous replication appears to slow to a crawl if fsync is turned off on the standby.
I'm not sure why this is happening or what the right behavior is in this case, but I think some kind of adjustment is needed because the current behavior is quite surprising. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers