Re: spi in bgworker - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: spi in bgworker
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Msg-id 20140322234927.GA12094@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to spi in bgworker  (James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>)
Responses Re: spi in bgworker  (James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>)
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James Harper wrote:
> The docs say I'm supposed to call BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection in a bgworker and then I can start using spi
functions,but they aren't clear on if I should call SPI_connect too. 
>
> If I call BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection and then SPI_execute I get a return code of SPI_ERROR_UNCONNECTED. If
Icall BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection then SPI_connect I get a segfault. 

You need to start a transaction after initializing the database
connection.  Did you see the sample worker_spi code in contrib?

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