Hi Yorick,
> The attached patch updates the hot-standby documentation (in the high
> availability section) so it explicitly mentions that certain settings
> need to be applied to servers in a particular order. For example, it
> states that if you increase a certain setting (e.g. max_connections)
> you need to do so on a primary first, before applying it to any
> secondaries.
I'm sorry to inform you that your description of max_connection is,
lets say, not quite accurate. I've just increased max_connections on a
standby without doing anything on a master and nothing wrong happened.
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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev