On 2015-12-11 18:12:55 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 10 December 2015 at 03:19, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> > > wrote: > > > * A way to securely make a libpq connection from a bgworker without > > messing > > > with passwords etc. Generate one-time cookies, sometihng like that. > > > > Why would you have the bgworker connect to the database via TCP > > instead of just doing whatever it wants to do directly?
> pg_dump and pg_restore, mainly, for copying the initial database state. Well, you don't want to necessarily directly connect from the bgworker, but from processes started from a bgworker. I guess that's where a good bit of the Robert's confusion originated. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers