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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: What are exactly bootstrap processes, auxiliary processes, standalone backends, normal backends(user sessions)?
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 19:49:27 -0500
Message-ID: <20210907004927.GI26465@telsasoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202109070018.vm2iaigah2v5@alvherre.pgsql>
References: <20210815003908.GP10479@telsasoft.com>
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On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 09:18:13PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2021-Aug-14, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>
> > I elaborated on your definition and added here.
> > https://commitfest.postgresql.org/34/3285/
>
> Thanks! This works for me. After looking at it, it seemed to me that
> listing the autovacuum launcher is perfectly adapted, so we might as
> well do it; and add verbiage about it to the autovacuum entry. (I was
> first adding a whole new glossary entry for it, but it seemed overkill.)
>
> I also ended up adding an entry for WAL sender -- seems to round things
> nicely.
Sure.
Maybe change "Stats collector" to say that it *receives* stats (not collects
them). And maybe say "(if enabled)" or (unless disabled).
> PS: I almost want to add a note to the startup process entry, something
> like "(The name is historical: it refers to its task before the
> introduction of replication, when it was only related to the server
> starting up after a crash.)"
I'd say "(The name is historical: the startup process was named before
replication was implemented; the name refers to its task as it relates to the
server startup following a crash.)"
> PPS: Do we want the list to be in alphabetical order, or some other
> order?
I copied them out of the header file - but that may not matter nor make sense
to someone reading the glossary.
Cheers
--
Justin
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