Re: make MaxBackends available in _PG_init

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.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: 2022-01-31T07:11:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 02:24:24PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Yeah, it would be good to know the scope before defining the limits
> of what could be done.  Another thing may be the interactions with
> session_preload_libraries and local_preload_libraries.

Worth noting that I have marked marked this patch as committed in the
CF app, as there is nothing else to do for now.
--
Michael

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