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Re: Review: Extra Daemons / bgworker

Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>

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From: Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-11-30T13:23:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 11/30/2012 01:40 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> I totally missed the need to connect to shared memory to be able to
> connect to a database and query it. Can't we just link the bgworkder
> code to the client libpq library, just as plproxy is doing I believe?

Well, sure you can use libpq. But so can external processes. So that's
no benefit of running under the postmaster.

Regards

Markus Wanner