Update docs to say you need fsync to make sync rep work fast.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml
index a7e2474189d2cc73ca8a189c718da6c1a239b91c..40b8b7393f86eb2dc81ec0adbb10ead27ce1616f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ synchronous_replication = on
    
     After a commit record has been written to disk on the primary the
     WAL record is then sent to the standby. The standby sends reply
-    messages each time a new batch of WAL data is received, unless
+    messages each time a new batch of WAL data is written to disk, unless
     wal_receiver_status_interval is set to zero on the standby.
     If the standby is the first matching standby, as specified in
     synchronous_standby_names on the primary, the reply
@@ -1013,6 +1013,12 @@ synchronous_replication = on
     the rate of generation of WAL data.
    
 
+   
+    Replies are only sent when WAL is written to disk, so setting
+    fsync to off on the standby will significantly
+    reduce performance of synchronous replication and should be avoided.
+   
+