On 8/2/21, 3:42 PM, "Andres Freund" <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > I've wondered, independent of this thread, about not making MaxBackends > externally visible, and requiring a function call to access it. It should be > easier to find cases of misuse if we errored out when accessed at the wrong > time. And we could use that opportunity to add flags that determine which > types of backends are included (e.g. not including autovac, or additionally > including aux workers or prepared xacts).
I'm not opposed to this. I can work on putting a patch together if no opposition materializes. Nathan
