Re: fix bgworkers in EXEC_BACKEND

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-12-27T18:45:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 27 December 2012 18:36, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> Simon,
>
> * Simon Riggs (simon@2ndQuadrant.com) wrote:
>> I admire your forward thinking on that; yes, that could cause
>> problems. But even then, we would be admitting that nobody now gets a
>> valid value of MaxBackends, which sounds like it might be a problem in
>> itself.
>
> I agree that the current implementation could lead to problems/confusion
> for contrib module authors, if they're doing something with MaxBackends.

I can't see any problems myself and am happy with Heikki's proposal to
accept that restriction, since other workarounds are possible.

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