On 2015-12-11 18:12:55 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 10 December 2015 at 03:19, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
> > wrote:
> > > * A way to securely make a libpq connection from a bgworker without
> > messing
> > > with passwords etc. Generate one-time cookies, sometihng like that.
> >
> > Why would you have the bgworker connect to the database via TCP
> > instead of just doing whatever it wants to do directly?
> pg_dump and pg_restore, mainly, for copying the initial database state.
Well, you don't want to necessarily directly connect from the bgworker,
but from processes started from a bgworker. I guess that's where a good
bit of the Robert's confusion originated.
