Re: pg_receivewal documentation

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 12:22:02AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> Works for me.
>
> Marked as "ready for committer".

Hmm. synchronous_commit is user-settable, which means that it is
possible to enforce a value in the connection string doing the
connection. Isn't that something we had better enforce directly in
the tool? In this case what could be fixed is GetConnection() which
builds the connection string parameters. One thing that we would need
to be careful about is that if the caller has provided a parameter for
"options" (which is plausible as wal_sender_timeout is user-settable
as of 12), then we need to make sure that the original value is
preserved, and that the enforced of synchronous_commit is appended.

Or, as you say, we just adjust the documentation. However I would
recommend adding at least an example of connection string which uses
"options" if the server sets synchronous_commit to "remote_apply" in
this case. Still it seems to me that we have ways to reduce the
confusion automatically.
--
Michael