On 2017-08-01 15:37:40 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 7/21/17 12:59, Robert Haas wrote:
> > That's an exceedingly-weak argument for rejecting this patch. The
> > fact that you can probably hack around the lack of a hook for most
> > reasonable use cases is not an argument for having a hook that does
> > what people actually want to do.
>
> Still nobody has presented a concrete use case so far.
Citus for example starts a background worker (performing
e.g. distributed deadlock detection) if the citus extension exists. We
atm need annoying hacks to do so when the first query is executed.
- Andres