On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > [I have an outstanding question on how to include LWlock support into
> > the archiver, required to flesh out the feature set, and of course
> > assuming these patches being accepted.]
>
> The archiver is deliberately designed not to be connected to shared
> memory. If you want to change that you'll have to make a very strong
> case why we should give up the safety and security advantages of it.
We should let the user decide.
If archiver_timeout is a server start GUC then we can attach to shared
memory if it is set, if not we avoid that.
If they are in a position to want that functionality they can make that
trade-off.
-- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com