RE: Perform streaming logical transactions by background workers and parallel apply

On Friday, January 13, 2023 2:20 PM Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Here are some review comments for patch v79-0002.

Thanks for your comments.

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> General
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> 1.
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> I saw that earlier in this thread Hou-san [1] and Amit [2] also seemed to say
> there is not much point for this patch.
> 
> So I wanted to +1 that same opinion.
> 
> I feel this patch just adds more complexity for almost no gain:
> - reducing the 'max_apply_workers_per_suibscription' seems not very
> common in the first place.
> - even when the GUC is reduced, at that point in time all the workers might be in
> use so there may be nothing that can be immediately done.
> - IIUC the excess workers (for a reduced GUC) are going to get freed naturally
> anyway over time as more transactions are completed so the pool size will
> reduce accordingly.

I need to think over it, and we can have detailed discussion after committing
the first patch. So I didn't address the comments for 0002 for now.

Best Regards,
Hou zj