On 8/2/21, 4:02 PM, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com> wrote:
> On 8/2/21, 3:42 PM, "Andres Freund" <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> I've wondered, independent of this thread, about not making MaxBackends
>> externally visible, and requiring a function call to access it. It should be
>> easier to find cases of misuse if we errored out when accessed at the wrong
>> time. And we could use that opportunity to add flags that determine which
>> types of backends are included (e.g. not including autovac, or additionally
>> including aux workers or prepared xacts).
>
> I'm not opposed to this. I can work on putting a patch together if no
> opposition materializes.
Here is a first attempt.
Nathan