> None of us know. What I do know is that I don't want PostgreSQL to be
> slower out of the box.
Understandable. So it seems like the answer is getting replication down
to one configuration variable for the common case. That eliminates the
cycle of "oops, need to set X and restart/reload" without paying
performance penalties on standalone servers.
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