On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 9:40 AM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 12:28:42PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Isn't that just going to end up with extension code erroring out and/or
> > blocking waiting for a bgworker to start?
>
> Well, that's the point to block things during an upgrade. Do you have
> a list of requirements you'd like to see satisfied here? POWA would
> be fine with blocking the execution of bgworkers AFAIK (Julien feel
> free to correct me here if necessary).
Yes, no problem at all, whether the bgworker isn't registered or never
launched. The bgworker isn't even mandatory anymore since a few
years, as we introduced an external daemon to collect metrics on a
distant database.