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Re: bg worker: general purpose requirements

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-09-21T15:59:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch> wrote:
> On 09/21/2010 03:46 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Wait, are we in violent agreement here?  An overall limit on the
>> number of parallel jobs is exactly what I think *does* make sense.
>> It's the other knobs I find odd.
>
> Note that the max setting I've been talking about here is the maximum
> amount of *idle* workers allowed. It does not include busy bgworkers.

Oh, wow.  Is there another limit on the total number of bgworkers?

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Robert Haas
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