On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The bgworker documentation does not explicitely mention that a
> bgworker using BGWORKER_BACKEND_DATABASE_CONNECTION needs to have
> BGWORKER_SHMEM_ACCESS set as well.
>
> Just to mention, a bgworker using only db connection flag and not
> shmem flag will fail at atart-up with this error.
> background worker "hello signal worker": must attach to shared memory
> in order to request a database connection
>
> Please find attached a patch that improves documentation a bit by
> mentioning this restriction. This should normally be backpatched to
> 9.3 stable.
Done. Thanks.
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