Our documentation in 
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/hot-standby.html> currently 
says the following:
<snip>
Running DROP DATABASE, ALTER DATABASE ... SET TABLESPACE, or ALTER DATABASE 
... RENAME on the primary will generate a WAL entry that will cause all 
users connected to that database on the standby to be forcibly 
disconnected. This action occurs immediately, whatever the setting of 
max_standby_streaming_delay.
</snip>
However, renaming a database doesn't trigger a disconnect here on a HS/SR 
setup:
* first, on the primary do:
CREATE DATABASE foo;
* ...wait until database creation arrived on the standby and connect:
psql foo
* now rename the database on the primary
ALTER DATABASE foo RENAME TO bar;
* on the standby do in the same connection as before:
foo=# SELECT datname FROM pg_database; datname
-----------template1template0postgresberndpgbenchbar
(6 rows)
That looks contrary to the documented behavior. Shouldn't i get a forced 
disconnect on this connection instead?
-- 
Thanks
Bernd