Re: [HACKERS] Streaming replication document improvements

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>

To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-04-01T22:55:46Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 11:49 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > The thing is, when dealing with new features, we reduce our overall
> > maintenance burden if we get it right the first time.  Obviously it's
> > too late for major changes, but minor adjustments to maintain the POLA
> > seem like exactly what we SHOULD be doing right now.
> 
> Oh, I agree.  Since we have a separate WALSender limit, it seems
> counter-intuitive and difficult-to-admin to have the WALSenders also
> limited by superuser_connections.  They should be their own separate
> connection pool, just like the other "background" processes.
> 
> However, if this was somehow infeasible, it wouldn't be hard to
> document.  That's all.

+1

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