On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 08:36 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote: > > but I am looking for, so in early next versions some interesting bgworkers > > will be in core - scheduler, idle connection killer, multi CPU sorter, ... > -1 for that. Those bgworkers things satisfy very specific needs (I > implemented one of them in the list). I'd rather see a wiki page > listing them properly and let each implementer maintain their code. >
Completely agree with Michael. I see them just like FDWs. We don't add some FDW in the core. Some are contrib modules, some are available elsewhere. BgWorkers should be handled the same way.
When I spoke "core" - I though a "contrib" resp. upstream
Pavel
> > So I am thinking, it should be marked as "other" feature this year. > +1 for that. Dynamic background workers is a hacker feature.