Re: make MaxBackends available in _PG_init

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@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: 2022-02-02T13:15:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 5:36 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can work on a new patch if this is the direction we want to go.  There
> were a couple of functions that called GetMaxBackends() repetitively that I
> should probably fix before the patch should be seriously considered.

Sure, that sort of thing should be tidied up. It's unlikely to make
any real difference, but as a fairly prominent PostgreSQL hacker once
said, a cycle saved is a cycle earned.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.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