Re: Support worker_spi to execute the function dynamically.

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Masahiro Ikeda <ikedamsh@oss.nttdata.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-07-28T09:19:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 02:11:48PM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> I don't think something like [1] is complex. It makes worker_spi
> foolproof. Rather, the other approach proposed, that is to provide
> non-conflicting worker IDs to worker_spi_launch in the TAP test file,
> looks complicated to me. And it's easy for someone to come, add a test
> case with conflicting IDs input to worker_spi_launch and end up in the
> same state that we're in now.

Sure, but that's not really something that worries me for a template
such as this one, for the sake of these tests.  So I'd leave things to
be as they are, slightly simpler.  That's a minor point, for sure :)
--
Michael

Commits

  1. worker_spi: Fix race condition in newly-added TAP tests

  2. worker_spi: Switch to TAP tests

  3. worker_spi: Use term "dynamic" for bgworkers launched with worker_spi_launch()

  4. Fix worker_spi when launching workers without shared_preload_libraries