On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> The documentation (or this feature) is broken still
>
> If dbname is NULL or dboid is InvalidOid, the session is not connected to
> any particular database, but shared catalogs can be accessed. If username is
> NULL or useroid is InvalidOid, the process will run as the superuser created
> during initdb. A background worker can only call one of these two functions,
> and only once. It is not possible to switch databases.
>
> But it fails with error:
>
> FATAL: database 0 does not exist
Ugh. I think that's a bug.
Patch attached.
The test code I used to verify that this works is also attached.
If there are no objections, I will commit and back-patch.
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