On 2012-12-05 19:03:44 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > Prefer > > BgWorkerStart_ConsistentState to be renamed to BgWorkerRun_InHotStandby > > BgWorkerStart_RecoveryFinished to be renamed to BgWorkerRun_InNormalMode > > > > presumably a process will shutdown if (BgWorkerRun_InHotStandby && > > !BgWorkerRun_InNormalMode) > > Hmm, no, I haven't considered that. You mean that a bgworker that > specifies to start at BgWorkerStart_ConsistentState will stop once > normal mode is reached? Currently they don't do that. And since we > don't have the notion that workers stop working, it wouldn't work -- > postmaster would start them back up immediately.
I personally don't see too much demand for this from a use-case perspective. Simon, did you have anything in mind that made you ask this? Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
