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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, "Imseih (AWS), Sami" <simseih@amazon.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: allow changing autovacuum_max_workers without restarting
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:24:06 -0500
Message-ID: <aBELNrA_h4NKtTLi@nathan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1050120.1745947158@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 01:19:18PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
>> On 28.04.25 16:41, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>>> However, weren't we considering reverting some of this stuff [0]?  I see
>>> that sawshark is now choosing max_connections = 40 and
>>> autovacuum_worker_slots = 6, and since there are no other apparent related
>>> buildfarm failures, I'm assuming that nobody else is testing the 60
>>> semaphores case anymore.
>>> 
>>> [0] https://postgr.es/m/618497.1742347456%40sss.pgh.pa.us
> 
>> (I don't have any thoughts on this.)
> 
> Andres seemed lukewarm about reverting 38da05346 or 6d0154196, so
> I left it be for the moment.  But I still feel the argument is good
> that "these will do little except confuse future hackers".  Barring
> objection, I'll go revert them.

+1, I almost threatened the same but wasn't totally positive where the
discussion stood.

-- 
nathan





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