Re: Threading in BGWorkers (!) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From James Sewell
Subject Re: Threading in BGWorkers (!)
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In response to Re: Threading in BGWorkers (!)  (James Sewell <james.sewell@jirotech.com>)
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On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 17:15, James Sewell <james.sewell@jirotech.com> wrote:
Using multithreading in bgworker is possible if you do not use any
Postgres runtime inside thread procedures or do it in exclusive critical
section.
It is not so convenient but possible. The most difficult thing from my
point of view is error reporting.

Happy to be proved wrong, but I don't think this is correct. 

PostgreSQL can call sigprocmask() in your BGWorker whenever it wants, and  "The use of sigprocmask() is unspecified in a multithreaded process" [1]




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