Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com> writes:
> Stop me if I'm all wrong already, but I though we said that we should
> handle this case by decoupling what we can send to the standby and what
> it can apply.
What's the point of that? It won't make the standby apply any faster.
What it will do is make the protocol more complicated, hence slower
(more messages) and more at risk of bugs.
regards, tom lane