Re: bg worker: general purpose requirements

On 09/21/2010 05:59 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Oh, wow.  Is there another limit on the total number of bgworkers?

There currently are three GUCs that control bgworkers:

max_background_workers
min_spare_background_workers
max_spare_background_workers

The first replaces the former autovacuum_max_workers GUC. As before, it
is an overall limit, much like max_connections.

The later two are additional. They are per-database lower and upper
limits for the amount of idle workers an any point in time. These later
two are what I'm referring to as the min/max approach. And what I'm
arguing cannot be replaced by a timeout without loosing functionality.

Regards

Markus Wanner