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From Markus Wanner
Subject Re: Review: Extra Daemons / bgworker
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Msg-id 50B8B336.1010807@bluegap.ch
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In response to Re: Review: Extra Daemons / bgworker  (Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>)
Responses Re: Review: Extra Daemons / bgworker  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 11/30/2012 01:40 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> I totally missed the need to connect to shared memory to be able to
> connect to a database and query it. Can't we just link the bgworkder
> code to the client libpq library, just as plproxy is doing I believe?

Well, sure you can use libpq. But so can external processes. So that's
no benefit of running under the postmaster.

Regards

Markus Wanner

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