On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:27 AM, Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been recently doing some work with dynamic bgworkers and noticed that I
> have no way of saying "I am done now and want to exit cleanly" because
> bgworkers get restarted automatically on exit code 0 no matter what is the
> restart interval set to.
>
> I understand the rationale for this behavior when using static bgworkers
> which are meant to run forever, but dynamic ones are spawned dynamically by
> code so they should also be able to terminate cleanly as they have
> presumably finite work to do. Also I think the clean shutdown of dynamic
> bgworker should not be logged (or at least not with the same log level as it
> is now) since it's business as usual.
>
> Since the dyanamic bgworkers are new in 9.4 the behavior can still be
> changed.
>
> Thoughts?
See the other thread where this is being discussed...
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