On 23 January 2017 at 13:19, Jaime Casanova
<jaime.casanova@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 22 January 2017 at 23:37, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When spawning a new instance, I found the following thing, which is
>> surprising at first sight:
>> postgres: bgworker: logical replication launcher
>>
>
> This is because the downstream needs it
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAMsr%2BYHH2XRUeqWT6pn_X0tFpP5ci7Fsrsn67TDXbFLeMknhBA%40mail.gmail.com
... and the launcher is responsible for launching workers for downstreams.
We could probably have the postmaster check whether any logical
replication downstreams exist anywhere and avoid starting the
launcher, but that means the postmaster has to start poking in the
logical replication catalog tables. That seems unnecessarily risky.
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