Re: Why does PostgresNode.pm set such a low value of max_wal_senders?

On 2020-Sep-29, Tom Lane wrote:

> So I wonder why PostgresNode.pm is doing
> 
>         print $conf "max_wal_senders = 5\n";
> 
> Considering that our default these days is 10 senders, and that a
> walsender slot doesn't really cost much, this seems unduly cheapskate.
> I propose raising this to 10.

I suggest to remove that line.  max_wal_senders used to default to 0
when PostgresNode was touched to have this line in commit 89ac7004dad;
the global default was raised in f6d6d2920d2c.

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