Re: [HACKERS] Logical replication launcher's bgworker enabled bydefault, and max_logical_replication_workers

On 22 January 2017 at 23:37, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When spawning a new instance, I found the following thing, which is
> surprising at first sight:
> postgres: bgworker: logical replication launcher
>

This is because the downstream needs it
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAMsr%2BYHH2XRUeqWT6pn_X0tFpP5ci7Fsrsn67TDXbFLeMknhBA%40mail.gmail.com

> In the same range of thoughts, it is also surprising to have the
> default value of max_logical_replication_workers set to 4, I would
> have thought that for a feature that has created more than 13k of code
> diffs, it would be disabled by default.
>

+1, we should that to 0 before release

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