Re: 9.6 synchronous_standby_names: discrepancy between docs and functionality

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
> <bnicholson@hpe.com> wrote:
>> When you try and use this example, it fails:
>>
>> syncrep=# alter system set synchronous_standby_names='2 (s1, s2, s3)';
>> ERROR:  invalid value for parameter "synchronous_standby_names": "2 (s1, s2, s3)"
>> DETAIL:  List syntax is invalid.

Maybe 9.6dev RPM that you installed was created before multiple
sync standbys feature was committed.

>> If you remove the space from between the 2 & the ( it works:
>>
>> syncrep=# alter system set synchronous_standby_names='2(s1, s2, s3)';
>> ALTER SYSTEM

Before multiple sync standbys feature was added, only comma-separated
list was valid in synchronous_standby_names. Since probably '2(s1, s2, s3)'
was interpreted as a comma-separated list of three standby names
"2(s1", "s2" and "s3)", it worked fine.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao