Re: max_wal_senders must die

Stefan, Dimitri,
> I disagree - limiting the maximum number of replication connections is> important for my usecases.

Can you explain more?  I clearly don't understand your use case.

> If we want something fixed *now*, should we perhaps just bump the
> *default* value for max_wal_senders to 5 or something?

If we're not going to remove it, then the default should be -1, which 
should mean "same as max_connections".

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