Re: [HACKERS] CONNECTION LIMIT and Parallel Query don't play well together

On 12 January 2017 at 15:24, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I've attached a patch which intended to assist discussions on this topic.
>
> The patch adds some notes to the docs to mention that background
> workers and prepared xacts are not counted in CONNECTION LIMIT, it
> then goes on and makes CountUserBackends() ignore bgworkers. It was
> already ignoring prepared xacts. There's a bit of plumbing work to
> make the proc array aware of the background worker status. Hopefully
> this is suitable. I'm not all that close to that particular area of
> the code.

Hi Robert,

Wondering you've had any time to glance over this?

If you think the patch needs more work, or goes about things the wrong
way, let me know, and I'll make the changes.

Thanks

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