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On 07/22/2011 12:11 PM, A J wrote:
> Basically I wish my synchronous write transaction to not wait 
> indefinitely when the synchronous standby servers are not available. 
> But rather a response returned back to client that write could not be 
> successful, after trying for 'n' seconds. How can that be accomplished ?

You might be able to get what you want here by setting statement_timeout 
to 'n' seconds when doing a write transaction.

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Greg Smith   2ndQuadrant US    greg@2ndQuadrant.com   Baltimore, MD
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I wish my synchronous write transaction to not wait indefinitely when
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You might be able to get what you want here by setting
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