Re: PostmasterContext survives into parallel workers!?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It looks to me like the reason for it is simply not having bothered to
> >> copy the rw->rw_worker data to somewhere that would survive deletion
> >> of the PostmasterContext.  I wonder though if anyone remembers a more
> >> fundamental reason?  Surely the bgworker is not supposed to touch any
> >> of the rest of the BackgroundWorkerList?
> 
> > I just checked BDR, which is the more complex code using workers I know
> > of, and I don't see any reason why this cannot be changed.
> 
> The attached patch passes "make check-world" for me.  Can you check it
> against BDR?

Just checked.  It works fine.

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