On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 17:00 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> Alvaro's work on 9.3, we now have the ability to configure background
> workers via shared_preload_libraries. But if you don't have the right
> library loaded at startup time, and subsequently wish to add a
> background worker while the server is running, you are out of luck.
We could tweak shared_preload_libraries so that it reacts sensibly to
reloads. I basically gave up on that by writing
session_preload_libraries, but if there is more general use for that, we
could try.
(That doesn't invalidate your work, but it's a thought.)
