Re: Connection slots reserved for replication

Greetings,

* Magnus Hagander (magnus@hagander.net) wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 2:02 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On the other hand, If we always reserve max_wal_senders slots
> > available slots for normal backend will get decreased in the next
> > release, which require for users to re-confiugre the max_connection.
> > But I felt this behavior seems more natural than the current one, so I
> > think the re-configuration can be acceptable for users.
>
> Maybe what we should do instead is not consider max_wal_senders a part of
> the total number of connections, and instead size the things that needs to
> be sized by them by max_connections + max_wal_senders. That seems more
> logical given how the parameters are named as well.

I tend to agree with having max_connections + max_wal_senders.

Thanks!

Stephen