Re: ParallelContexts can get confused about which worker is which - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> The other way to fix this is to pass down the index
> that the leader assigns to any given worker, and have the worker use
> that index instead of allocating its own separate index after
> connecting to the DSM segment.  Unfortunately, there's not really a
> good way to pass that additional information down to the worker right
> now, but we could fix that pretty easily by adding an additional field
> to the BackgroundWorker structure, which the worker would then be able
> to access via MyBgworkerEntry.

Here's a patch implementing that.

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