Many of these do depend on the Synapse master process (`matrix-synapse.service`),
so it makes sense to do it.
Furthermore, we're doing it so that one can stop the `matrix-synapse.service`
service and have systemd cascade this into stopping all the workers as well.
This is useful for easily stopping all of Synapse, so that Postgres
upgrades (`--tags=upgrade-postgres`) can happen cleanly.
Postgres upgrades currently stop `devture_postgres_systemd_services_to_stop_for_maintenance_list` which
includes Synapse, but stopping just the master process and leaving workers running is not safe enough and sometimes leads to errors like:
> ERROR: insert or update on table "event_forward_extremities" violates foreign key constraint "event_forward_extremities_event_id"
With this dependency in place, stopping `matrix-synapse.service` will stop all Synapse processes.
This was mostly affecting the stream writer (events) worker, which was
being reported as unhealthy. It wasn't causing any issues, but it just
looked odd and was confusing people.
As an alternative to hitting the regular `/health` healthcheck route (on
the "client" API which this stream writer does not expose),
we may have went for hitting some "replication" API endpoint instead.
This is more complicated and likely unnecessary.
Slavi Pantaleev