Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 3 December 2012 15:17, Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch> wrote:
> > The only process that currently starts background workers ... ehm ...
> > autovacuum workers is the autovacuum launcher. It uses the above
> > Postmaster Signal in autovacuum.c:do_start_autovacuum_worker() to have
> > the postmaster launch bg/autovac workers on demand.
>
> My understanding was that the patch keep autovac workers and
> background workers separate at this point.
That is correct.
> Is there anything to be gained *now* from merging those two concepts?
> I saw that as refactoring that can occur once we are happy it should
> take place, but isn't necessary.
IMO it's a net loss in robustness of the autovac implementation.
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