On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 5:13 AM, Petr Jelinek
<petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Hmm now that you mention it, I remember discussing something similar
> with you last year in Dallas in regards to parallel query. IIRC Windows
> should not have this problem but other systems with EXEC_BACKEND do.
> Don't remember the details though.
Generally, extension code can't use bgw_main safely, and must use
bgw_library_name and bgw_function_name. But bgw_main is supposedly
safe for core code. If it's not even safe there, then I guess we
should remove it entirely as a useless foot-gun.
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