Re: max_connections and standby server

> Somebody refresh my memory as to why we have this restriction (that is,
> slave's max_connections >= master's max_connections) in the first place?
> Seems like it should not be a necessary requirement, and working towards
> getting rid of it would be far better than any other answer.

If you care about max_connections, you might want to care about below as well (from xlog.c)
    RecoveryRequiresIntParameter("max_worker_processes",                                 max_worker_processes,
                      ControlFile->max_worker_processes);    RecoveryRequiresIntParameter("max_prepared_transactions",
                              max_prepared_xacts,                                 ControlFile->max_prepared_xacts);
RecoveryRequiresIntParameter("max_locks_per_transaction",

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