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From: jesperpedersen <[email protected]>
Subject: [PATCH] Highlight that pg_receivewal doesn't acknowledge that WAL has been applied, and as such synchronous-commit needs to be remote_write or lower.
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 13:14:25 -0400

Authors: Laurenz Albe and Jesper Pedersen
Review-by: Laurenz Albe
---
 doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_receivewal.sgml | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_receivewal.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_receivewal.sgml
index 0506120c00..46605db662 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_receivewal.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_receivewal.sgml
@@ -207,6 +207,13 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
         server as a synchronous standby, to ensure that timely feedback is
         sent to the server.
        </para>
+
+       <para>
+        Note that while WAL will be flushed with this setting,
+        it will never be applied, so <xref linkend="guc-synchronous-commit"/> must
+        not be set to <literal>remote_apply</literal> if <application>pg_receivewal</application>
+        is the only synchronous standby.
+       </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
-- 
2.21.0


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