While hacking today, I realized that a couple of comments related to
InitializeMaxBackends are obsolete. Originally, the number of
background workers was determined just after processing
shared_preload_libraries, but I changed that in commit
6bc8ef0b7f1f1df3998745a66e1790e27424aa0c with the introduction of
max_worker_processes. The attached patch fixes up the comments so
that they no longer offer up an obsolete rationale for what the code
does. Assuming nobody minds, I plan to commit this, and, since the
comments are actually wrong and might confuse someone, back-patch this
change as far as 9.4, where the above-mentioned commit first appeared.
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Robert Haas
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