On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 3:13 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Hm. Do I understand correctly that this problem is hit solely because
> the parallel mode code relies on there already have been a transaction
> snapshot set, thus avoiding the error? And that the code normally only
> works because GetTransactionSnapshot() will already have been called
> somewhere, before EnterParallelMode()?
It seems unlikely that InitializeParallelDSM() was ever intended to be
run in a background worker.
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Peter Geoghegan