On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 01:48:05PM -0500, Chapman Flack wrote:
> Thanks! I had actually registered that one (with a related one)
> for CF 2018-03, having missed the deadline for -01:
>
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/17/1467/
OK, thanks. I added a commitfest item annotiation to say that the doc
part of this entry has been applied.
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> -Chap
>
> On 01/24/2018 01:20 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 06:12:35PM -0500, Chapman Flack wrote:
> >> On 12/04/2017 09:13 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >>> On 1 December 2017 at 23:04, Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net> wrote:
> >>>> Can I call RegisterDynamicBackgroundWorker when not in the postmaster,
> >>>> but also not in a "regular backend", but rather another BGW?
> >>>>
> >>> Yes. BDR does it a lot.
> >>
> >> Would this doc patch be acceptable to clarify that, in case
> >> I'm not the last person who might wonder?
> >
> > Thanks, patch applied to head.
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >> >From 3308ef5647e8ce4a84855b4d0cdddda09ba6aeb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
> >> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:09:14 -0500
> >> Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that a BGW can register a dynamic BGW.
> >>
> >> ---
> >> doc/src/sgml/bgworker.sgml | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/bgworker.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/bgworker.sgml
> >> index 4bc2b69..e490bb8 100644
> >> --- a/doc/src/sgml/bgworker.sgml
> >> +++ b/doc/src/sgml/bgworker.sgml
> >> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
> >> *worker, BackgroundWorkerHandle **handle</type>)</function>. Unlike
> >> <function>RegisterBackgroundWorker</function>, which can only be called from within
> >> the postmaster, <function>RegisterDynamicBackgroundWorker</function> must be
> >> - called from a regular backend.
> >> + called from a regular backend, possibly another background worker.
> >> </para>
> >>
> >> <para>
> >> --
> >> 1.8.3.1
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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