On 8/2/21, 3:42 PM, "Andres Freund" <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> I've wondered, independent of this thread, about not making MaxBackends
> externally visible, and requiring a function call to access it. It should be
> easier to find cases of misuse if we errored out when accessed at the wrong
> time. And we could use that opportunity to add flags that determine which
> types of backends are included (e.g. not including autovac, or additionally
> including aux workers or prepared xacts).
I'm not opposed to this. I can work on putting a patch together if no
opposition materializes.
Nathan