Re: Parallelizing startup with many databases

From: "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Andreas Karlsson" <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
Cc: <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "Babak Ghadiri" <bbkghadiri6(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Parallelizing startup with many databases
Date: 2026-01-04 10:15:41
Message-ID: DFFQ5YDV4NCK.G9OHPG52QKL2@jeltef.nl
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On Sun Jan 4, 2026 at 1:02 AM CET, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> writes:
>> On 1/4/26 12:26 AM, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
>>> <Moving this discussion to pgsql-docs, with accompanying patch>
>
>> If we move the GUC in the documentation shouldn't we also move it in
>> postgresql.conf.sample? The sections in the documentation and the
>> sections in the sample config file seem to be the same.
>
> You would also need to change the group that the GUC is assigned to
> in guc_parameters.dat. So this isn't really a docs-only patch.
> (I agree that the GUC seems misclassified as-is.)

Good points. Attached an updated patch that changes
postgresql.conf.sample and the group too.

I didn't move the thread back to pgsql-hackers though, since changing
the location once more seemed counterproductive. Especially since it's
still a docs change at heart.

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v2-0001-Move-recovery_init_sync_method-GUC-to-WAL_RECOVER.patch text/x-patch 8.1 KB

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