Re: max_wal_senders must die

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> On 10/20/10 6:54 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I find it impossible to believe that's
>> a good decision, and IMHO we should be focusing on how to make the
>> parameters PGC_SIGHUP rather than PGC_POSTMASTER, which would give us
>> most of the same benefits without throwing away hard-won performance.
>
> I'd be happy to accept that.  Is it possible, though?

I sketched an outline of the problem AIUI here:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-10/msg01348.php

I think it's possible; I'm not quite sure how hard it is.
Unfortunately, I've not had as much PG-hacking time lately as I'd
like...

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