On 2016-07-07 14:04:36 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Julien Rouhaud
> <julien.rouhaud@dalibo.com> wrote:
> > Should a bgworker modifing data have to call pgstat_report_stat() to
> > avoid this problem? I don't find any documentation suggesting it, and it
> > seems that worker_spi (used as a template for this bgworker and I
> > suppose a lot of other one) is also affected.
>
> That certainly seems like the simplest fix. Not sure if there's a better one.
I think a better fix would be to unify the startup & error handling
code. We have way to many slightly diverging copies. But that's a bigger
task, so I'm not protesting against making a more localized fix.
Andres
