Remove obsolete replication settings within TAP tests.
PostgresNode.pm set "max_wal_senders = 5" for replication testing,
but this seems to be slightly too low for our current test suite.
Slower buildfarm members frequently report "number of requested standby
connections exceeds max_wal_senders" failures, due to old walsenders
not exiting instantaneously. Usually, the test does not fail overall
because of automatic walreceiver restart, but sometimes the failure
becomes visible; and in any case such retries slow down the test.
That value came in with commit 89ac7004d, but was soon obsoleted by
f6d6d2920, which raised the built-in default from zero to 10; so that
PostgresNode.pm is actually setting it to less than the conservative
built-in default. That seems pretty pointless, so let's remove the
special setting and let the default prevail, in hopes of making
the TAP tests more robust.
Likewise, the setting "max_replication_slots = 5" is obsolete and
can be removed.
While here, reverse-engineer a comment about why we're choosing
less-than-default values for some other settings.
(Note: before v12, max_wal_senders counted against max_connections
so that the latter setting also needs some fiddling with.)
Back-patch to v10 where the subscription tests were added.
It's likely that the older branches aren't pushing the boundaries
of max_wal_senders, but I'm disinclined to spend time trying to
figure out exactly when it started to be a problem.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/723911.1601417626@sss.pgh.pa.us
Branch
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REL_13_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/db8e60b82d6af88a4c8e1f9572abd5f5d84906b2
Modified Files
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src/test/perl/PostgresNode.pm | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)