On 8/2/21, 3:12 PM, "Andres Freund" <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > I think this is overblown. We already size resources *after* > shared_preload_libraries' _PG_init() runs, because that's the whole point of > shared_preload_libraries. What's proposed in this thread is to *disallow* > increasing resource usage in s_p_l _PG_init(), to make one specific case > simpler - but it'll actually also make things more complicated, because other > resources will still only be sized after all of s_p_l has been processed.
True. Perhaps the comments should reference the possibility that a library will adjust resource usage to explain why InitializeMaxBackends() is where it is. Nathan