Re: Replication/backup defaults

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Replication/backup defaults
Date: 2017-01-09 16:02:01
Message-ID: 5f88ffec-2181-95f2-ebfc-9b2451d3f057@2ndquadrant.com
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On 1/9/17 7:44 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> So based on that, I suggest we go ahead and make the change to make both
> the values 10 by default. And that we do that now, because that lets us
> get it out through more testing on different platforms, so that we catch
> issues earlier on if they do arise.

Sounds good.

> It would be interesting to find out why it's limited as well, of course,
> but I don't think we need to wait for that.

After some testing and searching for documentation, it seems that at
least the BSD platforms have a very low default semmns setting
(apparently 60, which leads to max_connections=30).

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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