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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: making bgworkers without shmem access actually not have shmem access
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Msg-id 1430.1399488283@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to making bgworkers without shmem access actually not have shmem access  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: making bgworkers without shmem access actually not have shmem access  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I've complained about this problem a few times before: there's nothing
> to prevent a background worker which doesn't request shared memory
> access from calling InitProcess() and then accessing shared memory
> anyway.  The attached patch is a first crack at fixing it.

> Comments?

Looks reasonable to me.
        regards, tom lane

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