Re: max_wal_senders must die

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> On 10/19/2010 09:06 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
>>
>> I think Magnus's idea to bump the default to 5 triages the worst of the
>> annoyance here, without dropping the feature (which has uses) or waiting
>> for new development to complete.  I'd be in favor of just committing
>> that change right now, before it gets forgotten about, and then if
>> nobody else gets around to further work at least something improved here
>> for 9.1.
>
> Heck, even *I* could write that patch, if we're agreed.  Although you can
> commit it.

Setting max_wal_senders to a non-zero value causes additional work to
be done every time a transaction commits, aborts, or is prepared.
It's possible that this overhead is too trivial to be worth worrying
about; I haven't looked at it closely.

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