Re: EXEC_BACKEND vs bgworkers without BGWORKER_SHMEM_ACCESS

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-08-13T12:53:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2021-08-05 19:56:49 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> Done in the attached patch. I don't think we need to add more to the docs than
> the flag being required?

Pushed that patch now. If we want further additions to the docs we can
do so separately.



Commits

  1. Remove support for background workers without BGWORKER_SHMEM_ACCESS.

  2. Detach shared memory from bgworkers without shmem access.