On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:39 AM, <maillists0@xxxxxxxxx> 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, -- Fujii Masao -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
