Markus Wanner wrote:
> On 11/30/2012 01:40 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Well, sure you can use libpq. But so can external processes. So that's
> no benefit of running under the postmaster.
No, it's not a benefit of that; but such a process would get started up
when postmaster is started, and shut down when postmaster stops. So it
makes easier to have processes that need to run alongside postmaster.
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