Re: Behaviour of bgworker with SIGHUP - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: Behaviour of bgworker with SIGHUP
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Msg-id 1357210591.1964.22.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Behaviour of bgworker with SIGHUP  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
Responses Re: Behaviour of bgworker with SIGHUP
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On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 17:44 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 11:03 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >
> > > > I think this (have a config option, and have SIGHUP work as expected)
> > > > would be useful to demo in worker_spi, if you care to submit a patch.
> > >
> > > Yeah, I would love too. Reading the code of worker_spi, we could add one
> > > or three parameters: a naptime, and the schemaname for both bgprocess.
> > > One would be enough or do you prefer all three?
> >
> > I got no problem with three.
>
> Actually, it occurs to me that it might be useful to demonstrate having
> the number of processes be configurable: so we could use just two
> settings, naptime and number of workers.  Have each worker just use a
> hardcoded schema, say "worker_spi_%d" or something like that.
>

Here you go.

worker_spi.naptime is the naptime between two checks.
worker_spi.total_workers is the number of workers to launch at
postmaster start time. The first one can change with a sighup, the last
one obviously needs a restart.


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Guillaume
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