Re: Replication and fsync

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:39 AM,  <maillists0@gmail.com> wrote:
> Newb question.
>
> I'm running 9.1 with a slave using streaming replication. A coworker wants
> to turn off fsync on the master and insists that the slave will still be in
> a usable state if there is a failure on the master. We all know that turning
> off fsync is a bad idea, but I was under the impression that the fsync
> setting would be replicated to the slave, making it useless as a backup in
> this scenario.

No. The setting of fsync in the master is not replicated to the standby.

> Am I wrong? If I'm wrong, is there still danger to the slave
> in this kind of setup?

No, I think.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao