Hi, On 2021-08-02 11:00:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > If you're saying that this code has been 100% broken for 7 years and > > nobody's noticed until now, then that suggests that nobody actually > > uses non-shmem-connected bgworkers. I sort of hate to give up on that > > concept but if we've really gone that many years without anyone > > noticing obvious breakage then maybe we should. > > Well, the problem only exists on Windows so maybe this indeed > escaped notice.
Right. I did briefly look around and I didn't find bgworkers without shmem attachement... > Still, this is good evidence that the case isn't used *much*, and TBH > I don't see many applications for it. I can't say I'm excited about > putting effort into fixing it. Yea, I don't think it adds that much - without e.g. sharing a file descriptor with the unconnected bgworker one can't implement something like syslogger. Greetings, Andres Freund
