Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > To this end, InitPostgres has been split in two. The launcher only > > calls the first half, the rest of the callers have been patched to > > invoke the second half. > > This just seems truly messy :-(. Let me see if I can find something > cleaner.
I was considering having InitPostgres be an umbrella function, so that extant callers stay as today, but the various underlying pieces are skipped depending on who's calling. For example I didn't like the bit about starting a transaction or not depending on whether it was the launcher. > BTW, is it *really* the case that the AV launcher won't need > RecentGlobalXmin? The way the HOT stuff works, I think anything that > examines heap pages at all had better have that set. Ugh. I forgot about that. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
