Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch> wrote:
> On 04/26/2011 02:25 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> We've talked about a number of features that could benefit from
>> some kind of "worker process" facility (e.g. logical replication,
>> parallel query). So far no one has stepped forward to build such
>> a facility, and I think without that this can't even get off the
>> ground.
>
> Remember the bgworker patches extracted from Postgres-R?
Yeah, that crossed my mind.
> [ Interestingly enough, one of the complaints I heard back then
> (not necessarily from you) was that there's no user for bgworkers,
> yet. Smells a lot like a chicken and egg problem to me. ]
My recollection is that people wanted two or three solid use cases
so that what was implemented could be shown to be generalized.
Perhaps this brings us to critical mass to re-introduce the idea.
-Kevin