Re: make MaxBackends available in _PG_init

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>, "wangsh.fnst@fujitsu.com" <wangsh.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-02-09T17:53:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 12:31:16PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 12:18 AM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>> Okay, I'd rather apply the same rule everywhere for consistency, then,
>> like in the attached.  That's minimal, still.
> 
> That's fine with me. In the interest of full disclosure, I did kind of
> notice this when reviewing the patch, though perhaps not every
> instance, and just decided that it didn't seem important enough to
> worry about. I'm totally OK with you thinking otherwise, though,
> especially since you also volunteered to do the work thus generated.
> :-)

This is fine with me as well.  I only left these out because the extra
variable felt unnecessary to me for these functions.

While you are at it, would you mind fixing the misspelling of
OldestVisibleMXactId in multixact.c (as per the attached)?

-- 
Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

Commits

  1. Add a new shmem_request_hook hook.

  2. Remove non-functional code for unloading loadable modules.

  3. Fix misleading comments about background worker registration.

  4. Revert the addition of GetMaxBackends() and related stuff.

  5. Fix typo in multixact.c

  6. Reduce more the number of calls to GetMaxBackends()

  7. Remove MaxBackends variable in favor of GetMaxBackends() function.

  8. Fix comments about bgworker registration before MaxBackends initialization

  9. Fix bogus assertion in BootstrapModeMain().

  10. Make sure MaxBackends is always set