On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Tomas Vondra
> <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> In any case, I think adding the pgstat_report_stat() into worker_spi seems
>> like a reasonable (and backpatchable) fix.
>
> Doing just that sounds reasonable seen from here. I am wondering also
> if it would not be worth mentioning in the documentation of the
> bgworkers that users trying to emulate somewhat the behavior of a
> backend should look at PostgresMain(). The code in itself is full of
> hints as well.
Everybody seems happy with this fix for a first step, so I've
committed it and back-patched it to 9.3.
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