From: Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Antonin Houska <antonin.houska@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: bgworker crashed or not?
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:35:01 +0200
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On 16/04/14 15:10, Andres Freund wrote:
>
> I think we really should bite the bullet and change this before 9.4
> comes out. The current static bgworker facility has only been out there
> for one release, and dynamic bgworkers aren't released yet at all. If we
> wait with this for 9.5, we'll annoy many more people.
>
+1
> On 2014-02-03 11:29:22 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>>> So
>>>> exit(0) - done, permanently
>>>> exit(1) - done until restart interval
>>>> exit(other) - crash
>>>> and there's no way to obtain the "restart immediately" behavior?
>>
Also I think if we do it this way, the incompatibility impact is rather
small for most existing bgworkers, like Robert I haven't seen anybody
actually using the exit code 0 currently - I am sure somebody does, but
it seems to be very small minority.
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