Re: Review: Extra Daemons / bgworker
Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>
From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-11-30T12:40:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch> writes: > AFAICS pgqd currently uses libpq, so I think it would rather turn into > what I call a background worker, with a connection to Postgres shared > memory. I perfectly well see use cases (plural!) for those. > > What I'm questioning is the use for what I rather call "extra daemons", > that is, additional processes started by the postmaster without a > connection to Postgres shared memory (and thus without a database > connection). I totally missed the need to connect to shared memory to be able to connect to a database and query it. Can't we just link the bgworkder code to the client libpq library, just as plproxy is doing I believe? Regards, -- Dimitri Fontaine http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support