Re: further bootstrap cleanup - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: further bootstrap cleanup
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Msg-id 20070219131830.GS9724@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: further bootstrap cleanup  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: further bootstrap cleanup  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >Here is a patch further cleaning up dummy process startup and the
> >bootstrap code itself a little.
>
> Could we please call the "dummy" processes something else? Dummy
> seems a bit belittling for such important things like bgwriter and the
> startup process.
>
> How about worker or helper process?

Well, sure, but the name was there before I patched it :-)  This is
mostly a code issue though, not something that shows up at all at the
user level.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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