Re: fix bgworkers in EXEC_BACKEND

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: fix bgworkers in EXEC_BACKEND
Date: 2012-12-27 18:45:32
Message-ID: CA+U5nM+FNeM1ifs1KfobOnQh0PgdPQzgJdo7_NFUCGr3=+pNLw@mail.gmail.com
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On 27 December 2012 18:36, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> Simon,
>
> * Simon Riggs (simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com) wrote:
>> I admire your forward thinking on that; yes, that could cause
>> problems. But even then, we would be admitting that nobody now gets a
>> valid value of MaxBackends, which sounds like it might be a problem in
>> itself.
>
> I agree that the current implementation could lead to problems/confusion
> for contrib module authors, if they're doing something with MaxBackends.

I can't see any problems myself and am happy with Heikki's proposal to
accept that restriction, since other workarounds are possible.

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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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