Robert,
On 04/26/2011 02:25 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> We've talked about a number of features that could benefit from some
> kind of "worker process" facility (e.g. logical replication, parallel
> query). So far no one has stepped forward to build such a facility,
> and I think without that this can't even get off the ground.
Remember the bgworker patches extracted from Postgres-R?
[ Interestingly enough, one of the complaints I heard back then (not
necessarily from you) was that there's no user for bgworkers, yet.
Smells a lot like a chicken and egg problem to me. ]
Regards
Markus
