Re: make MaxBackends available in _PG_init

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 09:24:42PM +0800, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> Yeah I would prefer this approach too, although it couldn't prevent extension
> from directly modifying the underlying variables so I don't know how effective
> it would be.
> 
> On the bright side, I see that citus is using SetConfigOption() to increase
> max_prepared_transactions [1].  That's the only extension mentioned in that
> thread that does modify some GUC, and this GUC was already marked as
> PGDLLIMPORT since 2017 so it probably wasn't done that way for Windows
> compatibility reason.
> 
> In the meantime, should we add an open item?

Yes, I think that we need to discuss more the matter here, so added one.
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Michael