Re: Support worker_spi to execute the function dynamically.

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Masahiro Ikeda <ikedamsh@oss.nttdata.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-07-28T20:34:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2023-07-28 13:45:29 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Having each bgworker on its own schema would be enough to prevent
> conflicts, but I'd like to add a second thing: a check on
> pg_stat_activity.wait_event after starting the workers.  I have added
> something like that in the patch I have posted today for the custom
> wait events at [1] and it enforces the startup sequences of the
> workers in a stricter way.

Is that very meaningful? ISTM the interesting thing to check for would be that
the state is idle?

Greetings,

Andres Freund



Commits

  1. worker_spi: Fix race condition in newly-added TAP tests

  2. worker_spi: Switch to TAP tests

  3. worker_spi: Use term "dynamic" for bgworkers launched with worker_spi_launch()

  4. Fix worker_spi when launching workers without shared_preload_libraries