Peter Geoghegan <peter.geoghegan86 at gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Christopher
>
>>
>> I see the edge case, and it's regrettably unpleasant.
>>
>
> I suppose the bottom line is that setting synchronous_commit to off in
> postgresql.conf on any Slony node is inadvisable (as, in fact, setting
> it to off is inadvisable in many scenarios). Luckily, it is possible
> to disable it on a per-session basis, so that clients of pg databases
> that are a slony-I nodes can avail themselves of asynchronous commits
> where that makes sense.

Good point.  I'll add this to the FAQ.
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