On 11/17/14 12:34 PM, Fujii Masao wrote:
> Add --synchronous option to pg_receivexlog, for more reliable WAL writing.

The last two sentences of this piece of documentation are a bit
hand-wavy and hard to parse.  Could you clarify this?

     <varlistentry>
      <term><option>-S <replaceable>slotname</replaceable></option></term>
      <term><option>--slot=<replaceable 
class="parameter">slotname</replaceable></option></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
         Require <application>pg_receivexlog</application> to use an existing
         replication slot (see <xref linkend="streaming-replication-slots">).
         When this option is used, <application>pg_receivexlog</> will report
         a flush position to the server, indicating when each segment has been
         synchronized to disk so that the server can remove that segment if it
         is not otherwise needed. <literal>--synchronous</literal> option must
         be specified when making <application>pg_receivexlog</> run as
         synchronous standby by using replication slot. Otherwise WAL data
         cannot be flushed frequently enough for this to work correctly.
        </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>



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