Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It looks to me like the reason for it is simply not having bothered to
> >> copy the rw->rw_worker data to somewhere that would survive deletion
> >> of the PostmasterContext. I wonder though if anyone remembers a more
> >> fundamental reason? Surely the bgworker is not supposed to touch any
> >> of the rest of the BackgroundWorkerList?
>
> > I just checked BDR, which is the more complex code using workers I know
> > of, and I don't see any reason why this cannot be changed.
>
> The attached patch passes "make check-world" for me. Can you check it
> against BDR?
Just checked. It works fine.
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