On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:04 PM, alexondi <alexondi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > but if I don't have any slave at this time why my command hang? Because there is no standby at that time ;) If synchronous replication is enabled but there is no standby connecting to the master, a write transaction waits until at least one synchronous standby has appeared and its WAL has been replicated to it. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general