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On 31.12.2010 14:40, Robert Haas wrote:
> Someone may have proposed this before, but one way of getting standby
> naming "for free" would be to make the standby names the same as the
> roles used to log in, rather than adding a separate parameter.  We
> could just recommend to people that they use a separate, descriptive
> role name for each standby.  Then the synchronous_standbys parameter -
> when added - would mean "a standby from one of these roles".

Seems a bit weird. It's not a lot of effort to give each standby a name. 
But if you want something automatic, how about gethostname() ?

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   Heikki Linnakangas
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