From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
cc: Melih Mutlu <m.melihmutlu@gmail.com>,
        Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: wake up logical workers after ALTER SUBSCRIPTION
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Comments: In-reply-to Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
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Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm reasonably certain the launcher is already signaled like you describe.
> It'll just wait to start new workers if it's been less than
> wal_retrieve_retry_interval milliseconds since the last time it started
> workers.

Oh.  What in the world is the rationale for that?

			regards, tom lane