make MaxBackends available in _PG_init - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hi Hackers:

I find the value in function _PG_init, the value of MaxBackends is 0.
In source, I find that the postmaster will first load library, and then calculate the value of MaxBackends.

In the old version, the MaxBackends was calculated by:
     MaxBackends = MaxConnections + autovacuum_max_workers + 1 +
        GetNumShmemAttachedBgworkers();
Because any extension can register workers which will affect the return value of GetNumShmemAttachedBgworkers.
InitializeMaxBackends must be called after shared_preload_libraries. This is also mentioned in comments.

Now, function GetNumShmemAttachedBgworkers was deleted and replaced by guc max_worker_processes,
so if we changed the calling order like:
    Step1: calling InitializeMaxBackends.
    Step2: calling process_shared_preload_libraries

In this order extension can get the correct value of MaxBackends in _PG_init.

Any thoughts?

Regards