Re: make MaxBackends available in _PG_init

On 1/7/22, 10:12 AM, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com> wrote:
> While that approach would provide a way to safely retrieve the value,
> I think it would do little to prevent the issue in practice.  If the
> size of the patch is a concern, we could also convert MaxBackends into
> a macro for calling GetMaxBackends().  This could also be a nice way
> to avoid breaking extensions that are using it correctly while
> triggering ERRORs for extensions that are using it incorrectly.  I've
> attached a new version of the patch that does it this way.

v5 didn't work with EXEC_BACKEND.  Here is a new revision.

Nathan