Re: ToDo: API for SQL statement execution other than SPI

On Jul 1, 2016, at 11:39 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:55 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:

I am writing two background workers - autoreindex and scheduler. In Both I
need to execute queries from top level. I had to wrote redundant code
https://github.com/okbob/autoreindex/blob/master/utils.c
autoreindex_execute_sql_command .Same code is in pglogical. Some statements
- like VACUUM or REINDEX CONCURRENTLY is not possible call from SPI.

Can be nice to have this function in core.

pg_background handles this.  Somebody might want to resurrect that patch.